I totally agree Talat and what's more you can!
Have a look at these (and other) open source solutions that offer this type of service.
I'd like to see Repository Managers catch up with Digital Commons in that regard (= invitation!-)
PKP - Public Knowledge Project
http://pkp.sfu.ca/
DPubs - Digital Publishing System
http://dpubs.org/
Regards,
Antony
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Antony Corfield
ROAD Project
http://road.aber.ac.uk
tel. 01970 628724
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Talat Chaudhri [tac]
> Sent: 26 June 2008 12:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: It's Keystrokes All the Way Down
>
> Hang on, I didn't say that Digital Commons was better, though it
> certainly is quite impressive. What I said was that Digital Commons
> offers one specific service that neither DSpace nor EPrints does at
> present: the ability to host branded small press OA journals. Being
> able
> to do that without necessarily having to pay for Digital Commons
> would
> be great - don't you agree?
>
>
> Talat
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Antony
> Corfield
> [awc]
> Sent: 26 June 2008 11:51
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: It's Keystrokes All the Way Down
>
> Do you mean developers should produce a service or software
> comparable
> to BE press. If it's the latter, I'd be interested as to why you
> consider Digital Commons a better solution than Dspace or Eprints?
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Talat Chaudhri [tac]
> > Sent: 26 June 2008 11:48
> > To: Antony Corfield [awc]
> > Subject: RE: It's Keystrokes All the Way Down
> >
> > To produce something comparable - sorry, thought that was
> reasonably
> > obvious... Don't you reckon people would go for it?
> >
> >
> > T
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:JISC-
> > [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Antony Corfield [awc]
> > Sent: 26 June 2008 11:43
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: It's Keystrokes All the Way Down
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean here, Talat. Invitation to what?
> >
> > > I'd like to see DSpace and EPrints developers catch up with
> Digital
> > > Commons in that regard (= invitation!).
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