Hey,
If your metadata is good enough, it is always easy to sift out the wheat from the chaff when it counts. And besides; isn't it a feature of the repository that it should house 'grey literature'?
Overweening editorial policy is for proper publications only. Repositories are not publications.
David
David Kane
Systems Librarian
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Subject: Re: Repository content
Sent: 29 March 2016 11:28
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Subject: Re: Repository content
Le 29 mars 2016 à 12:21, Lyn Gibson <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
Where do repositories draw the line as to what is accepted as a deposit in the institutional outputs repository?
This is always a difficult issue, but the more restrictive the editorial policy is the more difficult it is to accommodate scholars’ occasional needs.
For example, if a staff member of the institution organises a conference but it is not hosted by the institution would you accept all papers from the conference?
This is routine practice for us where conference organized on
https://www.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en often lead to the creation of a collection on HAL.
What about papers published in an in-house open access journal - do you accept all papers published in the journal or only those generated in-house?
I would obviously concur to this. We do even more with Episciences, since any author can deposit a pre-print on HAL (ut also on other publicaiotn repositories) that would then be reviewed by an overlay journal hosted there.
Hope it helps,
Laurent
many thanks,
Lyn Gibson
Edinburgh Napier University