?iso-8859-1?Q?Hugo_Fjelsted_Alr=F8e?= writes > By "community-building", I mean that such archives can contribute to the > creation or development of the identity of a scholarly community in > research areas that go across the established disciplinary matrix of the > university world.
This crucial if self-archiving is to take off. > I know the same thing can in principle be done with OAI-compliant > university archives and a "disciplinary hub" or "research area hub", and > in ten years time, we may not be able to tell the difference. But today, > it is still not quite the same thing. Correct. This is a point that is too many times overlooked. RePEc (see http://repec.org) prodives an example for this in the area of economics. RePEc archives are not OAI compliant but an OAI gateway export all the RePEc data. Many RePEc services are in the business of community building. The crucial part, though, it RePEc's author registration service. Cheers, Thomas Krichel mailto:kric...@openlib.org from Espoo, Finland http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
