[Dspace-general] Institutional Repositories vs Subject/Central Repositories

[Beth Tillinghast]

Thank you, Stevan, for your thoughtful reply. As it turns out we will 
be working with Policyarchive to harvest the content in our IR 
(thanks to this listserv!).

Can you and others on this list speak to the issue of an 
institutional mandate for researchers to deposit their output in the 
insitution's own IR. I know some institutions are taking this 
position, but I have also read a number of articles advising against 
this approach.

Thank you very much,

Beth
At 12:20 PM 6/7/2008, Stevan Harnad wrote:
>Beth Tillinghast wrote on the DSpace list:
>
> > I have just run into my first case where I am finding our IR in
> > competition with a Subject Repository...
> > 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?
>
>The dilemma has a simple, optimal and universal solution:
>
>Direct deposit should be in the IR. SRs and CRs can harvest from IRs.
>
>That's what the OAI protocol is for. Institutions are the research
>providers. They are the ones with the direct stake in the record-keeping
>and showcasing of their own research output, and in maximizing its
>accessibility, visibility, usage and impact. Institutions are also in
>the position to mandate that their own research output be deposited in
>their own IR; funder mandates can reinforce that, and can benefit from
>institutional monitoring and oversight (as long as they too mandate
>institutional deposit and central harvesting, rather than direct central
>deposit).
>
>Convergent institutional self-archiving makes sound sense and scales
>systematically to cover all of research output space, whereas divergent
>self-archiving, willy-nilly in SRs and CRs is arbitrary and simply
>produces confusion, conflict, and frustration in researchers, if they
>need to deposit multiply.
>
>(Before you reply to sing the praises of SRs and CRs, recall that their
>virtues are identical if they are harvested rather than the loci of
>direct deposit. The overwhelming benefit of IR deposit is that that is
>the way to ensure that all research output is universally self-archived.)
>
>THE FEEDER AND THE DRIVER: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally
>http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Temp/Harnad-driverstate2.html
>
>How To Integrate University and Funder Open Access Mandates
>http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/369-guid.html
>
>Optimize the NIH Mandate Now: Deposit Institutionally, Harvest Centrally
>http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/344-guid.html
>
>Stevan Harnad
>
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> > From: Michele Kimpton <michele at dspace.org>
> >
> > I can not directly answer your question, but I did want to let you
> > know that Policyarchive.net is a DSpace instance with Manakin.  Why
> > not have the content deposited in both?  Maybe you can even use SWORD
> > to facilitate this.  The IR being the "steward" of the content and
> > PolicyArchive having a rich collection of subject based documents.  It
> > is also a good preservation strategy to have the same document in
> > different geographical locations under different management regimes.
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >> Beth Tillinghast
>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:07:38 -0700
> > From: "Romulo Rivera" <rrivera at cgs.org>
> >
> > 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.
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