On 9 Feb 2008, at 11:35, Thomas Krichel wrote: > 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.
Can you be a bit more precise about your criticism? If you go to ROAR you will find 62 "Institutional or Departmental" repositories that are bigger than E-LIS (that's out of a total set of 562). Admittedly that's just 1 in 8 institutional repositories pulling something approximating to their weight, but then there are only 89 subject repositories listed in total. It's not a done deal by any means, but I think that the trend is looking a lot more positive than you suggest . -- Les
