[BOAI] Re: Internet 101

[Armbruster, Chris]

I should like to thank Stevan and Les for the wide advertisement of the new paper ;-)
In just one week it has been downloaded nearly 200 times.

A final reminder as to the title and location: 
Armbruster, Chris and Romary, Laurent, Comparing Repository Types: Challenges and Barriers for Subject-Based Repositories, Research Repositories, National Repository Systems and Institutional Repositories in Serving Scholarly Communication (November 23, 2009). 

Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1506905 

Thanks, Chris

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Von: boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk im Auftrag von Stevan Harnad
Gesendet: Mo 11/30/2009 22:46
An: American Scientist Open Access Forum
Cc: BOAI Forum; jisc-repositories
Betreff: [BOAI]  Internet 101
 
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Armbruster, Chris wrote:

Any Internet 101 course will include plenty of examples where deposit,

content and service are assembled within a single site (by one provider,

company etc.) - the list is really very long, from ArXiv to Amazon, SSRN

to Flickr, RePEc to Facebook and so on. Internet 101 theory will then

elucidate why this is so an (e.g. network effects, economies of scale

and so on). Creating thousands of little repositories was probably never

a good idea ...


Umm, I guess Internet 101 will also tell us that creating billions of little
sites was never a good idea and we should all be depositing directly in
Google...




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