Mike, Your project to set up your own small repository is a good one. Please, see the story of my "lab repository", set up in 2001. It was reported in a previous message on this list . http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-a ccess-forum&D=1&O=A&F=l&P=113107 It was seven years ago and at that time the idea of open archives was very difficult to be understood. Today, it is more and more obvious. Set up a repository for your lab : a concrete example is necessary. Explain what is at stake, using Stevan's http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html , Alma Swan's http://www.keyperspectives.co.uk/openaccessarchive/index.html and Arthur Sales' arguments http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/authors/Sale,_AHJ.html and I am sure that you will succeed to convince your administrators to follow you and launch a campus project. Good luck.
Hélène Bosc Euroscience Member http://www.euroscience.org/ Convenor of the workgroup on scientific publishing http://www.euroscience.org/science-publishing-workgroup.html From: Michael Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 6:15 AM Subject: How can I convince administrators of the value of an IR? Now with the state of Arizona in a financial crisis and budgets being cut across the campus, things do not look promising for new initiatives. My immediate plan is to try to set up a small repository for my own unit (with help from the Library) and hope the campus comes on board later. But it would help to have some succinct arguments and evidence, presented in a form that administrators will understand. Any suggestions?
