On 31 Mar 2010, at 19:07, Hugh Glaser wrote:
> On metadata entry:
> "I haven't got the time to put all that in - I publish 5/50/500 papers a year".
> I can see your concern, but there seems to be a misunderstanding here.
> *You* don't have to put all the data in.
> How many of your papers are single author?
> For the rest, you can rely on your co-authors entering the data for many of them, especially if you are a senior researcher; if you are a supervisor, you can certainly rely on your postgraduates doing the work for you on their papers. In fact you will find you need to spend less time managing your publications, as you can then export the entries to your own system.
> You may well find that you never have to enter anything, as your co-authors will do it for you.
Now we have the ability to directly import publication metadata from ISI Web of Science into our repositories, so that frees up another worry.
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Les
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