<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Hans Pfeiffenberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hans.pfeiffenberger@awi.de" target="_blank">hans.pfeiffenberger@awi.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Am 24.02.13 09:59, schrieb Peter Murray-Rust:<br>I second that. An indirect "proof" that this strategy actually serves<br>
research more thoroughly lies in the fact that publisher do /not/<br>
allow this in their standard green exceptions (by allowing deposit<br>
only to personal webpages and institutional repositories).<br>
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I slightly disagree in that "country-wide" repositories would still<br>
force scientist to search in dozens of them (if not hundreds, to be<br>
exhaustive).<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div>There are cases where this makes practical sense. If I want a thesis I don't look in the UK because it is so badly managed. I don't look in US because many theses have all been donated to commercial walled gardens where you have to rent them back. I go to NL where all the theses are collected in Darenet. <br>
<br>There are also many subjects where there is no natural repository - where do you put papers in (say) materials science? (This is a subject which generates billions of published worth and throws it all away). The domain cannot yet organize itself (we are trying to change that). So it's much better to put it in (say) British Library than DSpace@cam or DSpace@anywhereElse. The BL understands collaboration with other National Libraries. Universities usually don't understand "collaboration". And the BL understands non-textual material (e.g it is the natural home of DryadUK). value.<br>
<br>And this approach overcomes the obsessive concentration on "the final PDF" as the sole artifact of<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