[Dspace-general] An institution's IR vs. Subject Repository

[Romulo Rivera]

Hi Beth, 

My name is Romulo Rivera, Project Manager for PolicyArchive.  We are also a
Dspace shop, so we'd be happy to work together with you on this matter.
Maybe we can harvest the center's data from your repository. I will
follow-up with you.

Kind regards, 

Romulo 

Romulo Rivera
Policy Archive Manager
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Center for Governmental Studies
10951 W. Pico Blvd., Suite 120
Los Angeles, CA  90064
Phone: (310) 470-6590, ext. 123
Fax: (310) 475-3752
E-mail: rrivera at cgs.org
Website: http://www.cgs.org  

-----Original Message-----
From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu]
On Behalf Of Beth Tillinghast
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:29 PM
To: dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: [Dspace-general] An institution's IR vs. Subject Repository


Hi,

I have just run into my first case where I am finding our IR in 
competition with a Subject Repository. I've been working with an 
institutional center which is outside of our university but very 
closely affiliated with it. We were about to make some final 
decisions about community and collection development when my contact 
discovered a new Subject Repository supporting the type of research 
conducted at their Center and wants to explore this alternative 
before committing to submitting their work to our university repository.

http://www.policyarchive.net/index.php

I am wondering if others have run into this dilemma and can provide 
me with many good reasons why submission should take place in and 
institutional repository rather than a subject repository?

Also, as a side question, I know you can item map within your own 
DSpace instance, but is it possible to item map to another DSpace instance?

Thanks for the feedback,
Beth Tillinghast

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