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My personal thought on this one: Q: What is the primary factor for ranking researchers? A: Citations. Surely the aim, therefor, of the researcher is to market her work as widely as possible, to maximise the potential for citation. Given that we are now in the Information Age, where The Internet is the primary source of answers (backed up by reading what has been found, on paper), then the sensible solution is to place enough of the research results on the Internet such that they can be found and assessed, and followed up. Where, in the Internet, this material is placed is almost moot: the Internet has no location per sae - Search Engines index everything, everywhere. In other words: Academics would want to deposit ALL of their material in the same place, and leave the de-duplciation problem to the likes of Google (Scholar) Piegza, Amanda M. wrote: > I have been wondering about the self-archiving policies for new faculty > members to my campus. Basically, I have been assuming that > self-archiving only applies to when a researcher does her/his research > at the institution that has the IR, and therefore , new faculty members’ > previous publications do not apply. Am I correct in this assumption? Or > can we archive (when allowed by publisher) ‘old’ works by a new faculty > member? -- Ian Stuart. Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.