Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-23 Thread Stevan Harnad
: Re: Repository effectiveness If I recall correctly, the usability report Les refers to was never published and remains unavailable. So EPrints might be satisfied it has responded to the main findings of that report, but others who are interested in repository design are unable to judge

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-22 Thread Leslie Carr
] On Behalf Of C Oppenheim Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:10 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness Steve makes an excellent suggestion for further JISC work.  I would be happy to support such an initiative

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-22 Thread Steve Hitchcock
...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of C Oppenheim Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 10:10 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness Steve makes an excellent suggestion for further JISC work. I would be happy to support such an initiative

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-22 Thread Gale Moore
Hitchcock Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:03 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness If I recall correctly, the usability report Les refers to was never published and remains unavailable. So EPrints might be satisfied it has

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-22 Thread Tomasz Neugebauer
-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Steve Hitchcock Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:03 AM To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness If I recall correctly, the usability report Les refers to was never

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-21 Thread Tomasz Neugebauer
To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness Steve makes an excellent suggestion for further JISC work. I would be happy to support such an initiative, which should involve experts in usability studies. Charles

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-20 Thread Leslie Carr
On 19 Sep 2010, at 16:09, bj...@hanken.fi wrote: Firstly I have recently uploaded my central 30 articles to our (D-Hanken) repository, In what I would consider best practice fashion. You can check the results at http://www.hanken.fi/staff/bjork/. This took me about one week’s workload

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-20 Thread Hélène . Bosc
access with an embargo. Hélène Bosc - Original Message - From: bj...@hanken.fi To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 5:09 PM Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness Dear Stevan, Could you post this to the list Bo-Christer

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-20 Thread Sally Morris
-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of C Oppenheim Sent: 20 September 2010 11:41 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness I am inclined to think it is a combination of the two; on the one hand, it's not a high priority

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-20 Thread Steve Hitchcock
] On Behalf Of C Oppenheim Sent: 20 September 2010 11:41 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness I am inclined to think it is a combination of the two; on the one hand, it's not a high priority in the eyes of many researchers

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-20 Thread C Oppenheim
...@listserver.sigmaxi.org] On Behalf Of Steve Hitchcock [sh...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: 20 September 2010 14:10 To: american-scientist-open-access-fo...@listserver.sigmaxi.org Subject: Re: Repository effectiveness The points made by Sally and Charles suggest that the 'why should I bother (to self-archive

Re: Repository effectiveness (was: JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online))

2010-09-19 Thread Leslie Carr
On 18 Sep 2010, at 21:59, Velterop wrote: o Make a repository easy to find (a Google search for University of X repository more often seems to produce a link to an article or press release about the repository than a link to the repository itself, at least on

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-19 Thread Velterop
Stevan Harnad wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Velterop velte...@gmail.com wrote: Stevan makes the point that deposit takes only about 6 minutes. He's undoubtedly measured it precisely. I don't know at what point his measurements started, but I presume at the point where he has

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
Jan Velterop gives some valid advice to repository designers and managers: (1) make sure the DEPOSIT link is prominent on institutional repository home pages, and make sure the link works; (2) make sure the URL of the repository is known to depositors; (3) make sure the repository policy (if any)

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-19 Thread bjork
Dear Stevan, Could you post this to the list Bo-Christer Dear all, Two points about this discussion. Firstly I have recently uploaded my central 30 articles to our (D-Hanken) repository, In what I would consider best practice fashion. You can check the results at

Repository effectiveness (was: JAIRO (Japanese Institutional Repositories Online))

2010-09-18 Thread Velterop
Stevan makes the point that deposit takes only about 6 minutes. He's undoubtedly measured it precisely. I don't know at what point his measurements started, but I presume at the point where he has already found the submission page (and the link to it doesn't produce a 404). mandates are the

Re: Repository effectiveness

2010-09-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Velterop velte...@gmail.com wrote: Stevan makes the point that deposit takes only about 6 minutes. He's undoubtedly measured it precisely. I don't know at what point his measurements started, but I presume at the point where he has already found the submission