Hi John,
We have discovered here at JORUM (www.jorum.ac.uk) that some contributors do want to add URL's as well as actual content. However it seems that the main motivation for this is that they want to host the content themselves but at the same time allow them to be discovered through JORUM. It may be worth your while contacting the guys at MERLOT (www.merlot.org) in America and Edna Online in Australia as they are huge catalogues to URL's to web based resources and would be better placed to highlight some of the issues to you.
Regards
Ryan.
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Murtagh, John
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Subject: Rrepository Content: URLs
Hello all,
A first posting here from London South Bank University.
I wondered if any institution as part of its strategy of adding
content to its repository is placing URLs as items? Specifically,
permanent URLs which link to a page of articles written by academics
which then lead them to the article itself.
I suppose the one weakness of this approach would be broken links to
content, which is what a repository is meant to be a solution to! But,
I wondered if there were any other reasons why this approach might not
be used? Indeed, I would be interested to know if this approach had
been used at all. By anyone and if it didn't work, to 'fess up to it!
;)
Appreciate all thoughts and utterances!
Regards
John Murtagh
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