Stevan Harnad writes

> Yes, the three first ranks go to "thematic" (i.e., discipline- or or
> subject-based) Central Repositories (CRs): (1) Arxiv (Physics), (2) Repec
> (Economics) and (3) E-Lis (Library Science). That is to be expected,
> because such CRs are fed from institutions all over the world.

  Yeah, but E-LIS is really small, looking at it today it tells
  us it has 7253 documents. That IRs struggle to compete with that
  sort of effort demonstrates that IRs don't populate, even in the
  presence of mandates. No amount of Driver summits will change this.

  Disclaimer: I am the founder of RePEc and also do volunteer work
  for E-LIS.

  Cheers,

  Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                                RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel
                                               skype: thomaskrichel

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