I agree on all points. I was actually wondering if it might be advantageous
to have such a repository for design, rather than scattering it through
various institutional repositories.
Cheers.
Fil
Chris Rust wrote:
> Filippo A. Salustri wrote:
>> I would like to see a digital library, dspace or something, into which
>> we'd deposit our papers - or at least the abstracts and citations if
>> copyrights prevent otherwise - and then 'tag' the paper with keywords.
> This exists now. If your university has a dspace or eprints
> institutional repository then anything you place into is is
> automatically searchable by any BOAI compliant search engine (actually
> almost everybody uses Google Scholar for this). If your university does
> not have such a repository tell it that it is hampering your career and
> disadvantaging academics who do not work in large universities with huge
> numbers of journal subscriptions*. Open access is the only way you can
> ensure that most people have access to your work.
>
> AND the copyright problems are not as bad as most people imagine. If you
> want to archive something that is published in a journal you can check
> the publishers policy on archiving at the SHERPA website which maintains
> up to date information and tells you than the great majority of
> publishers allow some form of archiving. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
>
> Best wishes
> Chris
>
> *We are a big university with a lot of subscriptions to different
> publishers bundled online journals but I still find that about half of
> the journal articles that I find in web searches - ones that I really
> want to read - are not available to me.
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