This project( Archon ) is building an Open Archives Initiative compliant federated digital library with an emphasis on physics for the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL; http://www.nsdl.org/ ).

Funded by National Science Foundation


Selected Publications

• Michael L. Nelson, "Better Interoperability Through the Open Archives Initiative", New Review of Information Networking 7, 2002, pp. 133-145.

• Michael L. Nelson, Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze, Report on the 2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative, Gaining Independence with e-Print Archives and OAI, D-Lib Magazine 8(11), 2002.

• K. Maly, M. Zubair, M. Nelson, X. Liu, H. Anan, J. Gao, J. Tang and Y. Zhao , ARCHON - A digital Library that Federates Physics Collections, Proceedings of DC-2002: Metadata for e-Communities Supporting Diversity and Convergence, Florence, Italy, October 13-17, 2002.