More on Microsoft and SWORD
Pablo Fernicola (Microsoft) has just written a blog entry about The Microsoft eJournal Service and how this “is a good example of a growing trend towards delivering functionality through the Software as a Service approach“.
Of most interest to me is their continued support for SWORD. As well as the eJournal Service supporting SWORD, they have built SWORD support into Microsoft Office 2007 and their Research-Output Repository Platform.
The blog entry says:
Repositories
At the end of the process, the Editor can configure the service to deposit the articles to different repositories. One of those repositories is ArXiv, which is very popular for Physics and Math content, and is accessed using the SWORD protocol. The service can also be used to deposit to other SWORD based archives. This functionality is also useful for depositing to institutional repositories, and as such, the service could be used to manage the review process for publications such as thesis.
In order to deposit to a repository, you will need a login name and password on the system. The repository may have requirements as to the file formats supported, and their packaging, which you will need to match before submitting.
For folks in BioMed, you can also select to deposit into PubMed Central, and, as noted before, you need to be approved for deposit ahead of time, and have access to the system.
On a related note: The ‘SWORD 2′ project is now starting to get off the ground, and having firmed up the specification for SWORD 1.3, the implementations will soon start appearing. Also part of the project is a new website, and an innovative SWORD deposit client – more on that one in the next week or so!
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