<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 25 Sep 2009, at 15:55, Peters, Dale wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-ZA" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="Section1"><div><div><div style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">The task of building a sustainable business model for OA resources is enormous, and its urgency is underlined by the vulnerability of OAIster. </span></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>But that's back to my original point - the OA resources aren't threatened by OAIster's change of status. What is underlined is the vulnerability of the OA services. I don't know how Kat has been coping with OAIster since its launch, but I can tell you that the OAI services run by Southampton (ROAR, Celestial and CiteBase) are supported mainly by the determination and sweat of Tim Brody (the original service creator) and the crumbs that fall from repository funding projects. </div><div><br></div><div>The emergence of information services of a global scale (think Google and Google Scholar) highlights the need to have some serious infrastructure at your disposal! We have been lucky enough to have some funding from JISC to transform ROAR into a more sustainable form, but we'd really like to have some shared infrastructure for sharing celestial's OAI data to allow new services to be easily grown. Perhaps a cloud solution, and perhaps we can talk to COAR about it!</div><div>--</div><div>les</div><div><br></div></body></html>