I am afraid both of you see the closeness of repositories and journals
from a much to technical perspective.
Being responsible for an institutional repository (epic.awi.de) and
chief editor of an open access journal (ESSD) for many years, I
recognize vast differences of what is expected in adde
Jean-Claude raises an important point: from a technical perspective, there is
no necessary difference between journal repositories and other types of
repositories. Ideally, all will be interoperable for searching purposes and
cross-deposit will be routine. The only difference is what is collecte
No quarrel with all this. I just wanted to point out that an OA journal,
technically, is very close to a repository, at least at its basic level.
Modular functions can be added, of course, but they can also move across
platforms without much trouble. As for the vocabulary: repository,
archive, depo
