On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Thomas Krichel <kric...@openlib.org> wrote:
> Arthur Sale: Funders can nominate where they want the research they fund to > be deposited, but in reality, to do so other than in the institutional > repository simply creates extra work for everyone, Not for everyone. If a funder has a repository it is safest for them to require deposit in their repository. It is otherwise cumbersome to check that the deposit is there and stays there. If the university wants a copy they can download it from the funders' site. And an author having to import and deposit every one of his own institutional outputs into his own institutional repository because it was deposited institution-externally instead of institutionally is not extra work (for every author, and institution)? Isn't the gist of the OAI concept that central service-providers should harvest from distributed local content-providers, rather than vice versa? (Or should everyone be depositing directly in Google, and then harvesting back?) Stevan Harnad