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Profiles, in the first of a series, more recently established Open Archives Initiative (OAI) data providers whose content is not only “harvestable” by OAI service providers, and which offer open access to institutional and discipline information resources in a wide variety of publication and media formats. Looks at the Digital Library of the Commons; E‐LIS: E‐prints in Library and Information Science; INFOMINE; and the Open Video Project.

In an effort to facilitate the identification and use of highly‐relevant publications and resources relating to the social and economic implications of information, computation, and communication technologies, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently funded a pilot project to create a Web‐based bibliographic database of significant materials. Within the framework of this database, users are able to browse citations to relevant topics or search for specific aspects. The nature of the selected resources, their description, and associated methods for searching, viewing, saving, and exporting are outlined. The features and functionalities of the host Web‐based database management software are also described.

Since its creation nearly ten years ago, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) e‐print service (arXiv.org) has revolutionized scholarly communication within many scientific communities. It has also inspired the development of alternatives to conventional and electronic journal publication in a variety of other disciplines. The LANL e‐print database is also serving as the core collection for two major investigations that seek to enhance access and navigation within and between electronic archives and special collections.

To provide a summary of the main features of a science‐specific search engine.

A brief description of the features of Scirus.

Scirus is a comprehensive science‐specific search engine on the internet with more than 167 million science‐specific Web pages Scirus is a free search engine developed by Elsevier and is updated monthly. In addition to access to general and specialized full‐text journal, e‐print, report and abstract sources, Scirus also incorporates access to select company homepages, conference information, news pages, patent information, product information, scientists’ homepages, society homepages, and university web sites.

Offers information about a new science‐specific search engine.