The keystrokes argument is not "keystrokes or nothing" but "one set of
keystrokes now or repeated keystrokes later". In other words, you can
type in the details for your articles now, into a repository and have
all the future administration requests for lists of publications
satisfied by a query to the repository without having to ask you. Or
you can eschew the repository and receive regular administrative and
management requests for your lists of publications that you have to
deal with yourself (last year's publications? publications funded by
government? collaborative publications with other universities? best
publications in the last 6 years?).
You may well have been entering the keystrokes into your own private
BibTeX or EndNote database anyway, so just have them imported into
your repository. That's hardly any additional effort, but it deals
with the requests described above.
As Oscar Wilde once said about Open Access "the only thing worse than
depositing in a repository is not depositing in a repository".
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Les Carr
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