The partnership is a splendid idea, but please note that there is no logical or practical reason for University X to fill its Eprint Archives solely or even primarily with University X articles published in University X Press journals! The target content is of course University X articles in *all* journals.
But Oxford is certainly no mere university X, nor is OUP any old journal publisher! So this project is a timely and imaginative one -- as long as it clearly projects beyond the kick-start OU/OUP partnership to the self-archiving of all of OU research output! Stevan Harnad > from https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/170.html > > Oxford University Press (OUP) partnership with Oxford University > Library Services (OULS) in support of the national SHERPA project > http://www.sherpa.ac.uk : OUP will provide OULS institutional eprint > archive with online access to articles by Oxford University-based authors, > available free of charge to researchers across the globe. > > Frances Boyle (OULS): "Our first task is to set up a server with > the eprints.org software over the coming months. The collaboration > with OUP will enable us to populate the repository with quality > content. This initiative will kick-start the project and will > enable OULS to host a demonstrator system for the many interested > stakeholders at Oxford."
