Stevan Harnad wrote: > This is *precisely* one of the two fundamental reasons why I have > redirected my efforts and support from central archiving (such as > the Physics ArXiv, and CogPrints, which I founded in 1997) to > institutional self-archiving: > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/archpolnew.html > > REASON 1: Researchers and their own institutions share a common > interest -- because they are co-beneficiaries -- in maximizing the > access to, and thereby the impact of, their own research output.
Stevan, Another reason - IMO - is the role institutional repositories play in "archiving" (literal meaning of the word) the intellectual output of institutions. One should expect that institutions have strong incentives to do such archiving; this is about much more than only "publications"; it is about all kinds of output of an institution. Institution-based "self-archiving" can ride on the wave of institutional archiving in general. See also Cliff Lynch's paper in that respect (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html). herbert Herbert Van de Sompel Digital Library Research & Prototyping Los Alamos National Laboratory - Research Library + 1 (505) 667 1267 / http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/
