These discussions make it sound like the library itself doesn't want
to take policy decisions that artificially restrict the kinds of
material that appear in its repository. On the other hand, the library
is well used to taking pragmatic decisions about what it has the
capacity and capability to realistically handle.
How many repositories have deposit policies that are entirely library-
determined, compared to being decided (or significantly informed) by
researchers/academics?
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Les
On 11 Feb 2009, at 07:15, Peter Nix wrote:
> John,
>
> Couldn't agree more.
>
> In Wikipedia "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem" it
> says:
>
> "In 1637 Pierre de Fermat wrote, in his copy of Claude-Gaspard
> Bachet's translation of the famousArithmetica of Diophantus, "I have
> a truly marvellous proof of this proposition which this margin is
> too narrow to contain." (Original Latin: "Cuius rei demonstrationem
> mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet.")"
>
> The history of maths would have been very different had this remark
> not survived.
>
> Best,
> Peter
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10 Feb 2009, at 19:17, Delasalle, Jenny wrote:
>
>> Mike, et al,
>>
>> It has never been clear to me why some repositories have a
>> restriction to peer-reviewed only. As far as I am concerned any
>> work produced by an academic and is claimed by that academic to be
>> an academic/research output IS such and it is not my place to
>> dispute this. Otherwise I am infringing on academic freedom and
>> acting as an unqualified arbiter/censor. I would go further and say
>> such distinctions are restrictive of information/knowledge
>> dissemination. For many subjects the lightly refereed conference
>> paper is the norm for publishing of new results and discussion of
>> the latest ideas and these may even be selected on an abstract
>> rather than the final paper. Also solid work is written up in
>> Working Papers and Technical Reports and all these too should be in
>> repositories and made visible to the world. Restrictions are for
>> bureaucrats, my job is to encourage and improve academic
>> communication and information dissemination.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John Smith,
>> Administrator of the Kent Academic Repository – KAR,
>> University of Kent, UK.
>>
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