Research Publications Web Page?

Jabagi writes: "Hi, I am computer engineering undergrad. and my department in the university has given me the job of doing a web site that displays its publications in digital format. So I wanted to ask if anybody knows any good [prefereably university-originated] web pages that have a publication for research pages with an easy to use interface. A very good one in my opinion is from MIT. I would also accept any suggestions to what should be included on such a page [for example, which formats do you prefer the documents to be in, what types of information should be present, etc...]"

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Check out the ACM

[martyb]

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery is rolling out The ACM Portal to Computing Literature. It looks to me that your timing is perfect, as they say on the ACM home page:

Visit the NEW ACM Portal - (and try the Online Guide to Computing Literature for FREE through 9/30/01)!

I learned of this from reading the article "ACM Opens Portal to Computing Literature" which appeared in the (dead tree) July 2001 Issue of "Communications of the ACM" Vol. 44, No. 7.

Here is part of a salient paragraph:

While it is currently out-of-scope for the Portal to capture the references in works put out by other publishers, it is intended to create a comprehensive bibliographic database by capturing all the references in ACM articles that cite works from other publishers and for which there is no matching bibliographic entry in the database.

I would suggest you contact the ACM and see if they have any suggestions on what you are attempting. I would expect they have already explored a number of alternatives, one of which might be just what you are looking for.

If you should decide to create your own system, please consider making it open-source so that others may benefit as well.