[GOAL] Re: US Presidential Open Access Directive: 3 Cheers and 8 Suggestions

[Hans Pfeiffenberger]

Am 24.02.13 09:59, schrieb Peter Murray-Rust:
> For the record I strongly advocate publishing science in 
> domain-specific repositories. They already provide search interfaces 
> which are heavily used unlike the 2000+ Institutional repositories 
> where no scientist uses them as the first place to look. In some 
> cases Google may have indexed some entries but it is patchy and 
> unsystematic and has no non-textual search (e.g. sequences, chemical 
> structures). In contrast the domain repositories are developing 
> unified standardised search indexes. Until there is a single point 
> search for repository content, perhaps on a country-wide basis, they 
> won't get searched.
I second that. An indirect "proof" that this strategy actually serves 
research more thoroughly lies in the fact that publisher do /not/ 
allow this in their standard green exceptions (by allowing deposit 
only to personal webpages and institutional repositories).

I slightly disagree in that "country-wide" repositories would still 
force scientist to search in dozens of them (if not hundreds, to be 
exhaustive).

Hans Pfeiffenberger