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
IRIScotland
Digital Library Division
Edinburgh University Library
George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3768
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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
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