Some tools for scientific authors and readers in the Open Access World

Readers:

• trac: a wiki-tool for the management of software- and themes development, with a link to the version-control-system subversion (svn)
• Resolver of a URL, URN.
• Plagiarism-control: Copyscape; Docoloc test-engine; TurnItin;
  [Plagiarism can be much more easily checked when the document is open access.

Increase of scientific Visibility

• MyMetaMaker [Th.Severiens] helps to attach correct and rich metadata to a scientific document, to ease search engines to find it as relevant. (originally for physics);
• My Meta Maker for Research Groups helps to attach correct metadata for research work group home page;
• Professional Home Page helps to create metadata to increase the web-visibility for the own professional home-page. Information Infofile.
• Professional Home Page for Institutions helps to add metadata for institutes home pages.

Authors:

• collaborative editing: offline or real-time-online) of several authors
• TeXDocC TeX Validator of a LaTeX Document Center
• PLATO, Interactive Mathematical Authoring with PLATO
• Link-checker; html checker
• LEO Dictionary;

• OASIS, aims to provide an authoritative sourcebook on Open Access covering the concept, principles, advantages, approaches and means to achieving it. The site highlights developments and initiatives from around the world, with links to diverse additional resources and case studies. As such, it is a community-building as much as a resource-building exercise. Users are encouraged to share and download the resources provided, and to modify and customize them for local use.
• Dont forget a disclaimer
• eprints.org dedicated to the freeing of the refereed research literature online through author/institution self-archiving. eprints.org is part of the Open Citation Project, a DLI2 International Digital Libraries Project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation.
• PEAR OAI: PHP class library für Open Archives Initiative Protocol Metadata Harvesting. Includes a server and client (Harvester) Interface.
• OAI Data Provider: An Implementation of the OAI V2 Data-Provider as GPL Open Source. Link: phpoai2-1.8.0
• Web service Management Systems (CMS) and Document management
  • CMS (GNUPL): e.g. Typo3; or Zope with iplone; or phpnukem.
  • GAPworks workflow Dokument management with Quality filters and interaction with Authors, referees, editors, ..Gutachtern, Editoren, pp. (supported by ISN ).
• OAI Service Provider: Implementation of the OAI V2 Service Provider as GPL Open Source. oai_harvester (1.4.2004). For adaptions see Changes.

Search Engines and information sources: It is assumed that search engines are picked by their assumed credibility.

• Some more or less intelligent search engines:
  • Google; Ixquick;
  • Metager2; served by SUMA e.V; as is Metager;
  • SBDS; National Library of Australa; Australian collections and worldwide online sources;
  • Semager; searches for relations and analyses web-pages;
• Multilingual library information point of the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin.
• Tertiary Wiki Institutional Repositories: Main Repository Architectures;
• DISCUS and Discus: Developing Information Skills & Competence for University Students
• Either you give your document a reliable long term stable web-address or you use the OCLC OpenURL Resolver Registry
• advanced Google-scholar and resource locator (for Germany) by Hehl, Regensburg;
  [compare: Google scholar and type in as preferences the library you are looking for.]
• The hypervirtual library Schopfheim ;
• Open Access journals; Registry of refereed open Access journals; Some OA accessible journals are only accessible via the USA;
• EZB Regensburg: large collection of open access journals and periodica, series etc.
• Wolframalpha: exact sciences fact hunter and calculator
• Soople: easy expert search in google for quantitative queries? [How much is ..]
• The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines.Charles S. Knight; Read/WriteWeb 29.1.2007; versus Simply Google
• LimeSurvey a free tool to start your own survey; Create a survey; tool by the Virginia Tec, USA.
• Field-specific search for internet sources with a Guide;

• Ranking Web of World Universities; and International University Ranking by the g-Factor

  and in the toll-access world you need the IBAN Validator, the International Bank Account Number .