(apologies for the delay in responding!) We concur with Roy Tennant, who wrote on May 28, that pre-existing infrastructures within universities are important. When planning and implementing a new archive it is useful to assess what kind of technological support is available -- also, what finacial allottment is available, what time constraints are in place -- all good questions.
Our publishing model takes these issues into consideration and offers flexible responses. We call our model the Guild Publishing Model (GPM). The GPM also has quality indicators, may improve long term access, has flexibility within each site, is compatible with other publishing models, offers increased access and speed of communication (as compared to the typical peer reviewed paper journal), and, is almost always free to readers and authors! For an in depth look at the Guild Publishing Model read: Locally Controlled Scholarly Publishing via the Internet: The Guild Model, by Rob Kling, Lisa Spector & Geoff Mckim (2002), available at: http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/papers.html We do not believe that there is one panacea -- rather -- examining many models allows for greater success. Discussion and comments are welcome! Rob Kling & Lisa Spector Rob Kling, Professor of Information Systems and Information Science, SLIS, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University at Bloomington http://www.slis.indiana.edu/kling/index.html [email protected] Lisa Spector, Research Associate, Center for Social Informatics, SLIS, Indiana University, Bloomington http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SCIT/ [email protected]
