The ten years of OAI and eight years of BOAI are also a significant
time span, particularly since the successful subject-based
repositories like arXiv, RePEc, SSRN, CiteSeer etc. are much older.
Much hope and a lot of money has been invested in institutional
repositories - but, for example, in the UK the significant mandates
are now research funder mandates and all the life science RCUKs have
joined UK PMC. It would thus seem important and urgent that IRs
reconsider their strategy and take a closer look at the idea of being
a research repository or joining forces for building a national (or
regional) system.
Armbruster, Chris and Romary, Laurent, Comparing Repository Types:
Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories, Research
Repositories, National Repository Systems and Institutional
Repositories in Serving Scholarly Communication (November 23, 2009).
Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1506905
Regards, Chris
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Von: American Scientist Open Access Forum im Auftrag von Leslie Carr
Gesendet: Di 11/24/2009 18:11
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Betreff: Re: Comparing repositories - subject-based,
institutional, research and national repository systems
On 23 Nov 2009, at 17:22, Armbruster, Chris wrote:
> After two decades of repository development, some conclusions may
be drawn as to which type of repository and what kind of service best
supports digital scholarly communication, and thus the production of
new knowledge.
>
I think "two decades" is a bit misleading: although what we think of
as the big subject-based repositories may predate the Web itself it's
only just 10 years since the conception of OAI-PMH and (just) less
than 8 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Even the
notion of an Institutional Repository is still relatively young - and
when did we start calling them "repositories" rather than "archives"?
I'm sure that the archives of this list will have the answer!
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Les Carr
Received on Wed Nov 25 2009 - 10:57:35 GMT