This project focuses on helping researchers on the VT campus to build upon work in the Open Archives Initiative by making their collections of research publications accessible through a standard interface.
At least three different collections of research publications on campus should be made into Open Archives. One possible starting point is the local archive of CS technical reports.
Each of these archives will then be linked into a central prototype search service for research publications on campus (this will be provided).
This project is important to illustrate the power of institutional hierarchical self-archiving of research, an idea that is receiving much attention at the moment. For more information, go to NUDL and E-Prints.