I've been following an interesting exchange on the BOAI mailing list based on this paper comparing the value of institutional archives versus sector-wide archives (I've abbreviated the title in the title of this post). Favoring the former, Stevan Harnad suggests "Institutions are the universal providers of all research output -- funded and unfunded, across all subjects, all institutions, and all nations." This is, of course, debatable, and we can argue that "researchers want and will use disciplinary services (look at usage stats for arXiv, ADS, SPIRES, RePEc, PMC, SSRN vs IRs)." More from Harnad today here. There is a slightly dated metalist of archive repositories, including subject based repositories, available online.
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