Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-12 Thread Arthur Sale
 Isidro As one of those that contributed to that discussion, may I be more specific? The impact of a repository should be measured by things other than some of the measures that you use. PageRank and Size are both very weak indicators. I give examples below. VISIBILITY Visibility in the way you

Harvard Faculty Vote on Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Today

2008-02-12 Thread Stevan Harnad
Fully Hyperlinked Version of this Posting: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/361-guid.html Optimizing Harvard's Proposed Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Harvard faculty are voting today on an Open Access (OA) Self-Archiving Mandate Proposal.

Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-12 Thread Isidro F . Aguillo
Dear all: Thank you for the useful input. I agree with Steve about the importance of backlinks, specially if we are able to convince people of doing deep linking. We are going to apply some of the advices in a new edition (a second beta will be ready before the schedukled date of July), but we

Re: Harvard Faculty Vote on Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate Today

2008-02-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gu�don
[ The following text is in the utf-8 character set. ] [ Your display is set for the iso-8859-1 character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Let me comment briefly on this. 1. The issue of books regularly recurs. Let us remember that we are talking about