Stevan Harnad wrote:
> This is *precisely* one of the two fundamental reasons why I have
> redirected my efforts and support from central archiving (such as
> the Physics ArXiv, and CogPrints, which I founded in 1997) to
> institutional self-archiving:
> http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html
>
> REASON 1: Researchers and their own institutions share a common
> interest -- because they are co-beneficiaries -- in maximizing the
> access to, and thereby the impact of, their own research output.
Stevan,
Another reason - IMO - is the role institutional repositories play in
"archiving" (literal meaning of the word) the intellectual output
of institutions. One should expect that institutions have strong
incentives to do such archiving; this is about much more than only
"publications"; it is about all kinds of output of an institution.
Institution-based "self-archiving" can ride on the wave of institutional
archiving in general. See also Cliff Lynch's paper in that respect
(
http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html). herbert
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library
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