Physics (as you say) and medicine are the principle communities with
this issue at Southampton. It also touches Maths and any school which
has its own (legacy) publications database.
Since arXiv doesn't ask for much metadata, physicists seem not keen
to provide it, especially as they are getting no real OA advantage
for the extra 'work'. This affects half of our physics department (2
out of 4 research groups use arxiv heavily.)
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Les Carr
On 1 Jun 2006, at 15:44, Patrick Fitzgerald wrote:
> Would anybody like to share their experience of dealing with
> situations where academics are already depositing in subject-based
> repositories and don't see the point of doing the work twice.
>
> The example which I've been given is physics but clearly the issue
> is a broader one.
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Patrick
>
> Patrick Fitzgerald
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