<font size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Isidro F. Aguillo, via the AmSci OA Forum. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The
second
edition of the 2011 Ranking Web of Repositories has been
published at the end
of July. <span> </span>It is available
from the
Webometrics portal:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://repositories.webometrics.info/" target="_blank">http://repositories.webometrics.info/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The
number of repositories
is growing fast, especially in academic institutions from
developing countries.
As in previous editions the subject repositories still appear in
the top positions,
with large institutional ones following them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">There
are no
relevant changes in this edition, but the editors are making a
plea to the Open
Access community regarding a few aspects related to intellectual
property
issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The
papers and
other documents deposited in institutional repositories are
probably the main
asset of those institutions. As important as giving free access
to others is
the proper recognition of the authorship of the scientific
documents. Unfortunately
a few institutions are hosting their repositories in websites
outside the main
webdomain of its organization and many repositories are
recommending to use
systems like handle and others purl-like URLs for citing
(linking) the
deposited items. This means that moral rights regarding
institutional authorship
are ignored, relevant information about authors is missed and
the semantic
possibilities of the web address are not explored.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Nowadays
it is already
common to add the URL address of the full text document in the
bibliographic
references of the published papers. Logically the link to the
full text in the
institutional repository can be used for that purpose, but
researchers are
facing options that ignore their institutional affiliation, with
strange
meaningless codes, prone to typos or other mistakes and pointing
to metadata pages
not to the full text documents. Obviously for authors it could
be more
profitable to host the papers in their personal pages instead
doing it in
institutional repositories whose naming policies have relevant
copyright issues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Our
position is
that end-users should be taken into account, that web addresses
are going to
place in important role in citing behavior, that citations are
the key tool for
evaluation of authors, that institutions are investing large
amounts of money in
their repositories in exchange of prestige and impact and that
providing permanent
address is the duty of the institution, nor responsibility of
external third-parties.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Comments
are
welcomed</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">===============================</span></p><pre cols="72">Isidro F. Aguillo, HonPhD
The Cybermetrics Lab
IPP-CCHS-CSIC
Albasanz, 26-28 (3C1)
28037 Madrid. Spain
isidro.aguillo @ <a href="http://cchs.csic.es" target="_blank">cchs.csic.es</a>
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