I paid.
Alma
--- Philip J Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Stevan,
>
> If your goal is 'immediately reachable' and has been
> so for several
> years, how come it has yet to be reached? I think
> other factors are in
> play beyond a plain inability to understand your
> arguments. Or is it
> that simple?
>
> I'd be interested to know if you (or anyone else)
> paid Richard Poynder
> the suggested $8 dollars to access his article.
>
>
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/03/institutional-repositories-and-littl
> e.html
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Philip
>
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> Philip Hunter
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> Digital Library Division
> Edinburgh University Library
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>
> <snip>
>
> Those who prefer leisurely fussing with the
> curation/preservation of
> arbitrary digital contents of any and every
> description will of course
> have plenty to keep them busy for decades. Eprints,
> in contrast, has an
> immediate, already-overdue mission to fulfil, and it
> is becoming clearer
> and clearer that -- with some prominent and
> invaluable exceptions -- the
> library community has found other rows to hoe.
>
> Richard has proposed that it might be time for a
> parting of paths
> between the Generic Digital Curation/Preservation IR
> movement and the OA
> IR movement, and he might be right. One has a
> diffuse, divergent goal,
> the other a focused, convergent -- and urgent and
> immediately reachable
> -- goal, one that might now be hamstrung if it is
> subsumed under the
> diffuse, divergent goal of the other.
>
> For the details, please see Richard's article.
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> <snip>
>
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