Thomas, please see my reply to Eric. All I'll add is that most repositories are already up and paid for, but empty. It's not money they need, it's mandates.
Stevan On 2012-06-20, at 11:06 AM, Thomas Krichel wrote: > > Stevan Harnad writes > >> And if the institution's users need access to a journal article from >> another institution, today, they should eat cake? > > No. They should send an email to the authors and ask for a copy. If > the authors don't respond, then just don't read that papers and > don't cite that paper. There are other papers to read. > >> And maybe instead of spending money "building" the institutional >> repository, institutions should mandate filling it? > > Mandates are useful but incentives can help too. Just spend some of > the money saved on subscription and faculty travel to conference, > but make that support conditional on papers appearing in the IR. > >> Perhaps the subscription cancelling can be saved for when 100% of >> all institutions' articles have been deposited and are accessible to >> all users as Green OA? > > No. You have to realise building institutional repository is > expensive. It has to be funded centrally. So where is the money > coming from? To understand this you have to take a broader look at > the rationale for research. > > Research in universities is conducted to raise awareness of the > university's work. It is not individually rational for an individual > to purchase access to papers produced by other universities. Such > purchases subsidise attention to research conducted at other > universities. If these other universities want to advertise > themselves, let them do it through their repositories. > > Of course it also collectively irrational for the whole university > sector to buy back its output that it has given away for free. That > irrationality is well understood. The individual irrationality of > subscription is less well understood, as Stevan's accusation of > humbug demonstrates. > > Cheers, > > Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel > http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 > skype: thomaskrichel > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
