Re: Central versus institutional self-archiving

[Fytton Rowland <J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk>]

In a study in the UK which we have just completed for the Joint
Information Systems Committee, JISC (a brief account of which will,
referees permitting, be published in a forthcoming special issue of
Serials Review), after quite exhaustive review of all aspects of e-prints
archiving, we recommended a "harvesting model", in which full texts (and
other digital objects) remain at distributed institutional (and other)
archives, but metadata is harvested and processed centrally.  This model
seemed to overcome most of the drawbacks of a distributed model mentioned
by Richard Durbin.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3904.html

Fytton Rowland, Loughborough University, UK