On 25 Jun 2008, at 15:15, Peter Cliff wrote:
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>>>> (2) The way to remedy keystroke inertia is not to ask for even
>>>> more keystrokes!
>>>
>>> Or any keystrokes - so why bother with repositories at all as by
>>> this premise they are a barrier to self-archiving in themselves?
>> Because OA and IRs about providing OA to research articles, for
>> researcher use, not about splendid metadata classification schemes
>> for empty IRs...
>
> OK. How then do IRs differ from, say, well managed Web sites?
I think we can all agree that an IR *is* a web site, it just has some
heavy-duty tools for achieving a "well-managed" status.
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Les
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