I think this is where a Current Research Information System (CRIS) makes
perfect sense.
A CRIS can record the metadata for all publications, (as well as other
relevant items such as projects, organisations, CV info etc). Each
publication record can then link to the full-text in whichever
repository is appropriate.
The full picture and additional context is given by the CRIS.
Anna Clements
University of St Andrews
(and member of eurocris.org)
Ian Stuart wrote:
> In an ideal world, yes - I would agree with you.
> In fact, in an ideal world, I'd turn your idea on it's head: Have a
> central store for all research output, which is then queried (using
> wonderful web2.0/3.0 technologies) to create Institutional Repositories
> (the "look at us, ain't we wonderful" thing) as well as individual
> author Lists (ala PublicationsList.Org)
>
> I guess it comes down to the same thing as RAE/REF/YAPOP - which wants
> everything by the researcher listed, from the beginning.
>
> <humour>
> Anyway: Google [Scholar] deals with de-duplication, so what's the problem?
> </humour>
>
> More seriously, there will always be duplication - for example, let us
> assume that you and I produce a paper together: which repository does it
> go in? Yours or mine?
> Same paper... absolutely identical, 'cos the publisher wants their
> version deposited, and we have both added the full compliment of
> metadata....
>
> Paul Needham wrote:
>> Wouldn’t it make more sense for an Institutional Repository to house
>> just the research outputs from its own Institution? A ‘natural’
>> organisational unit, as Professor Harnad has observed on many
>> occasions. Otherwise we are talking about multiple institutions
>> effectively running multiple Author Repositories/CVs. What happens
>> when an author at an institution (A) moves on to his/her next
>> institution (B), and the next (C), and the next (D)? Are A, B and C
>> going update their repositories with new entries for the author now at
>> D? No – A, B and C will just get increasingly out of date. Are A, B
>> and C going to delete their IR entries now the author is at D? No –
>> the institutions are likely to retain those entries as evidence of
>> ‘institutional’ research outputs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Surely an Author Repository/CV system would be better catered for by
>> using over-arching services such as the Intute Repository Search
>> Service (http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/) in conjunction with a ‘national
>> name and factual authority service’. (The JISC NAMES project
>> (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/shared_services/project_names.aspx)
>> is working on a pilot service.)
>
>
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