Professor Harnad is defining the reality according his wishes once more.
2009/10/17 Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_gmail.com>:
>> is "institutional repository" in this press release a
>> complete misnomer? OpenSky will be a multi-institution, *disciplinary*
>> repository, not so? Unless they are planning selective OAI-PMH
>> harvesting from IRs, which isn't how I read the release.
>
> The relevant distinction is institutional vs central repository,
The authoritative list of OA disciplinary repositories is
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories
There is absolutely no need to have one "central repository" for each
discipline (like arxiv).
Professor Harnad is ignoring the fact that
* most universities have no repository
* most researchers are not affiliated to an institution with an repository.
"An estimated 185,000 people were employed as active researchers in
the UK during 2006-07, of which
around 94,000 were in the business sector, 82,000 in higher education
and 9,500 in
government" (Houghton et al., p. 139)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/rpteconomicoapublishing.pdf
This means that one cannot exclude non-university-affiliated
researchers from OA deliberations.
Klaus Graf
Received on Sat Oct 17 2009 - 22:29:28 BST