Dear Terry,
Thanks for your thoughts, but I did not plan a thread on this topic. I was answering David Durling's question. In the current project, we are building a working library for collaborators. It is easy to become a collaborator. There is no cost.
We lack the resources to provide a public, open access facility. There is no reason to announce the technical details of our system. We will let collaborators know what they need to know as we achieve our project milestones.
You underestimate the costs of the kind of project I could have funded in 2008. This was an institutional repository, a stable, permanent open access digital library with full maintenance for the foreseeable future. Such an open access digital library requires legal, secretarial, and bibliographic support for proper registration with copyright permissions. Each document requires cataloging and search functions. This is not a do-it-yourself "test bed” or a volunteer conference web site. This would have been a long-term commitment of the university for a public-access digital repository. We checked the budget — at the time, it would have cost around two million over a decade or so, primarily for staff services. Stability with full service over many years is a multi-million dollar investment. Volunteer conference proceedings vanish from the web because they lack the staffing for long-term maintenance. Institutional repositories are stable because institutions allocate the required staff.
We adhere to copyright laws. We are not trying to work around copyright laws. We cannot provide instant open access. We provide access to the collection on a simple basis.
We seek completed doctoral thesis projects from doctoral programs at accredited universities or university-level design schools. We will add each completed thesis to our library. We make the full collection available to all collaborators. There is no cost.
This is a specific and limited project. We seek help in expanding our collection of completed PhD theses in design.
Yours,
Ken
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