Professor Harnad is defining the reality according his wishes once more. 2009/10/17 Stevan Harnad <amscifo...@gmail.com>: >> is "institutional repository" in this press release a >> complete misnomer? OpenSky will be a multi-institution, *disciplinary* >> repository, not so? Unless they are planning selective OAI-PMH >> harvesting from IRs, which isn't how I read the release. > > The relevant distinction is institutional vs central repository,
The authoritative list of OA disciplinary repositories is http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Disciplinary_repositories There is absolutely no need to have one "central repository" for each discipline (like arxiv). Professor Harnad is ignoring the fact that * most universities have no repository * most researchers are not affiliated to an institution with an repository. "An estimated 185,000 people were employed as active researchers in the UK during 2006-07, of which around 94,000 were in the business sector, 82,000 in higher education and 9,500 in government" (Houghton et al., p. 139) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/rpteconomicoapublishing.pdf This means that one cannot exclude non-university-affiliated researchers from OA deliberations. Klaus Graf