Innkeeper at the Roach Motel
Dorothea Salo,
MINDS@UW Madison,
Oct 03, 2011
According to this article, library-run institutional repositories are at a crossroads. Without a mandate, professors will not populate the repository; Dorothea Salo writes, "The "build it and they will come" proposition has been decisively proven wrong." Citation advantages and exposure have not been enough to persuade them to make the effort to contribute their work. The repositories, meanwhile, suffer from underfunding and lack of support; "Software and services have been wildly out of touch with faculty needs and the realities of repository management." Salo adds, on the JISC-repositories list, "I'm sure I'm not the only librarian who's been informed that her job is in jeopardy if she irks faculty with all that commie talk about open access."
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