Are there statistics supporting a current decrease in number of deposits
on ArXiv or CogPrints?
Stevan Harnad a écrit :
>> May I ask you when CogPrints was first created? What was its official launch date?
>>
>
> CogPrints was launched August 19, 1997
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm
>
> I might add that CogPrints (as well as Arxiv) are obsolescent as
> primary loci for direct deposit: Since 1999 (the OAI interoperability
> protocol) the distributed network consisting of authors' own OAI-compliant
> Institutional Repositories (IRs) has become the natural and optimal locus
> for direct deposit. Central Repositories (CRs) (like Arxiv and CogPrints) if they
> perdure at all, will become harvesters from the primary research providers
> (IRs), rather than the locus where papers are deposited directly. The
> same applies to PubMed Central.
>
> Depositing directly in a CR is as silly today as depositing directly in
> Google! Citeseer is a better model for an OA-age CR than Arxiv, because
> it already is (and always has been) a harvester rather than a direct
> locus for central deposit. OAIster is another example, and there are more.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
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