Re: Harnad's faulty thinking on OA deposit and APA policy

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:47:19 -0400

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Thomas Krichel <krichel_at_openlib.org>
wrote:

>�Arthur Sale:�Funders can nominate where they want the
      research they fund to�

> be�deposited, but in reality, to do so other than in
      the institutional

> repository simply creates extra work for everyone,

      �Not for everyone. If a funder has a repository it is
      safest
      �for them to require deposit in their repository. It is
      otherwise
      �cumbersome to check that the deposit is there and stays
      there.

      �If the university wants a copy they can download it from
      the
      �funders' site.


And an author having to import and deposit every one of his own
institutional outputs into his own institutional repository because
it was deposited institution-externally instead of institutionally is
not extra work (for every author, and institution)?

Isn't the gist of the OAI concept that central service-providers
should harvest from distributed local content-providers, rather than
vice versa? (Or should everyone be depositing directly in Google, and
then harvesting back?)

Stevan Harnad
Received on Thu Jul 24 2008 - 18:02:24 BST