<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Andrew A. Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaa@meiji.ac.jp" target="_blank">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>The first is that the primary means of achieving Open Access should be by<br>
deposit in either an institutional repository (for those researchers with an<br>
institutiona such as a research lab or a university) or in a single nominated<br>
general repository (preferably the OpenDepot: <a href="http://www.opendepot.org" target="_blank">www.opendepot.org</a>). Please do<br>
not encourage agencies to make the mistake of following the NIH which<br>
mandated direct deposit in BioMedCentral. By all means encourage automatic<br>
harvesting for relevant papers to relevant central or subject repositories<br>
such as BMC or even an agencies own. However, mandating deposit in an<br>
institutional repository encourages and reinforces institutions to maintain<br>
their own repositories and to mandate deposit of all research into that<br>
repository (not just federal funded research).</blockquote><div><br>BioMedCentral is an Open-Access for profit CC-BY publisher. As far as I know NIH has never mandated deposition in BMC.<br><br>I suspect you meant PubMedCentral (PMC) or its European counterpart EuropePMC. (Disclaimer: I am on the project advisory board of EuroPMC).<br>
<br>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.<br>
</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069