Mark In relation to your very useful and clear report on repositories, http://www.palsgroup.org.uk/palsweb/palsweb.nsf/79b0d164e01a6cb880256ae0004a0e34/8c43ce800a9c67cd80256e370051e88a?OpenDocument you might be interested in the talk I gave recently in Geneva at the OAI conference - we would argue that we were a little further ahead than some of the European initiatives documented in your report and certainly have more than most of the UK repositories at the present time. See the ANU figures for example. http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a035925
We have deliberately targeted the non-Science areas and attempted to harvest material back from repositories such as the physics archive, as well as harvesting websites here. The amount of downloads shows that the more material you get in ... Grateful if you could give us a plug if you do future updates as we often feel neglected in the southern hemisphere in northern hemisphere reports! You might also be interested in the government grants of $12 million to institutional repositories in Australia which are far wider than textual, which were announced late last year. http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/McGauran/2003/10/mcg002221003.asp Colin Steele University Librarian, Australian National University (1980-2002) and Director Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003) W.K. Hancock Building (043) The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Tel +61 (0)2 612 58983 Fax +61 (0)2 612 55526 Email: colin.ste...@anu.edu.au
