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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". --- Les Carr