Thank you William.

I had previously come to the conclusion that institutional repositories were simply failing to reach enough acceptance to reach the OA revolution tipping point, and open access journals are struggling. My analysis a year or so ago was that the social media model (such as Mendeley) offered a model which would result in rapid takeup, particularly by younger, active, researchers. I wrote four essays (and I called this route the Titanium Road) which alas I have forgotten to upload to the University Repository and make OA. I will do so asap and let the list know when they are available.

Thank you for the reply. The time for the change has not only come - it is long overdue. I'll follow your blogs with interest.

However, there is another key issue that nobody has yet responded to. Besides synchronizing Mendeley (excellent), can we get rid of the horribly clunky repository deposit interfaces? Being an Emeritus Professor I no longer command the programming resources to make it happen. Librarians are no longer so wedded to manual intervention in metadata so they won’t resist.

Best wishes for Christmas and New Year. I look forward to Mendeley’s subversive activities in the future!

Arthur Sale

Emeritus Professor of Computer Science

University of Tasmania, Australia

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Arthur, it's interesting that you mention the fluid deposit interface of Mendeley as an example for institutional repositories, because I made exactly that argument during my talk at Open Repositories in Austin this summer [1], and I'm not the only one who's been thinking about it. Les Carr [2] and Adam Brownfield [3] have also had the same idea.

So it sounds like an idea whose time has come! Next year we hope to have a pilot going with Cambridge to sync Mendeley with institutional repositories, and you can kepe up to date on the progress of the work here: http://jisc-dura.blogspot.com/

[1] https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/index/search/presenters/view?firstName=William&middleName=&lastName=Gunn&affiliation=Mendeley%20Research%20Networks&country=US

[2] http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-on-mendeley-and-repositories.html

[3] http://prezi.com/fbgyiabmtq1w/mendeley-and-institutional-repositories/

[4] My slides from OR are here: http://db.tt/Ydwbgv1I They're a bit impressionistic, but I think you can get the idea.

Best,

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