Les describes the problem, but forgets to mention the solution! Import
(harvest) into the institutional repository the deposits in any central
repository by institutional researchers (and add any missing metadata
automatically or by hand). The number of papers involved for any local
institution is not large, and this is a good way to set the institutional
repository into motion. Eventually, best practise will swing over to
the institutional archives, authors will deposit there directly, and it
will be the central archives that harvest (and that is the natural way,
if you think about it for a few minutes, the institution being the
primary content provider in all cases).
Stevan Harnad
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Leslie Carr wrote:
> Physics (as you say) and medicine are the principle communities with
> this issue at Southampton. It also touches Maths and any school which
> has its own (legacy) publications database.
>
> Since arXiv doesn't ask for much metadata, physicists seem not keen
> to provide it, especially as they are getting no real OA advantage
> for the extra 'work'. This affects half of our physics department (2
> out of 4 research groups use arxiv heavily.)
> --
> Les Carr
>
>
>
> On 1 Jun 2006, at 15:44, Patrick Fitzgerald wrote:
>
> > Would anybody like to share their experience of dealing with
> > situations where academics are already depositing in subject-based
> > repositories and don't see the point of doing the work twice.
> >
> > The example which I've been given is physics but clearly the issue
> > is a broader one.
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > Patrick Fitzgerald
> > Institutional Repository Project Officer
> > The Library, University of Sussex,
> > BRIGHTON BN1 9QL, UK
> >
> > http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/ir/
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> >
> > Tel +44 (0)1273 872850
> > Fax +44 (0)1273 678441
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