Steve and Isidro
There are two points about links. The main point about links is that
they are hardly used. Over 75% of entries to an average institutional
repository comes from an out-of-repository search engine. The small
number of uses of the in-repository search are by the local
repository
Absent any new information (or amendments) to the contrary, Harvard
University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Tuesday February 12 adopted the
world's 38th Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate -- the 16th of the
institutional or departmental mandates.
Hi,
On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Arthur Sale wrote:
This brings me to the second point: Repositories were not set up to
provide linkage, and if they were to be in the deep web apart from
being harvestable, their utility would be only slightly weakened.
Indeed this is exactly the situation
Stevan,
I'm sure your version is preferable to the one actually passed by
FAS. Some of us urged a more forceful approach. However, those with a
better political sense thought otherwise.
Note also that only the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - large as it is
- has accepted this policy. It has yet
