Weaken the Harvard OA Mandate To Strengthen It

2008-02-14 Thread Stevan Harnad
** Cross-Posted ** On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Terry Martin (Law, Harvard) wrote: 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

Re: New Ranking of Central and Institutional Repositories

2008-02-14 Thread Arthur Sale
Mark Doyle The dominant institutional repository softwares ALL have such simple identifiers. The softwares are not badly designed. But that does not obscure the essential point that inward bound links on the open web are a minor contributor to a repository success. Many links that are used are