Re: A Prophylactic Against the Edentation of the RCUK Policy Proposal

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I am amazed that Heather had not seen this important document before and I
am really pleased to have brought it to her attention. I do wish SPARC
would make it more visible. I would love to know how to reach it from the
SPARC home page at www.arl.org/sparc. If you click on SPARC resources, it
is not there alongside CREATE CHANGE and DECLARING INDEPENDENCE

Anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: A Prophylactic Against the Edentation of the RCUK Policy
Proposal

> On 8-Jul-05, at 2:27 PM, Anthony Watkinson wrote:
>
> >  A key document in the SPARC arsenal (though difficult to find now if
> > one goes in through the SPARC home page) is the position paper on
> > institutional repositories by Raym Crow. You can find it at
> > http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html.
>
> Anthony, thanks for pointing us to this excellent resource - well worth
> reading!  There are a great many good reasons for libraries and
> universities to set up and fill institutional repositories.
>
> As Raym Crow explains in this document, institutional repositories "Have
> the potential to serve as tangible indicators of a university's quality
> and to demonstrate the scientific, societal, and economic relevance of its
> research activities, thus increasing the institution's visibility, status,
> and public value."
>
> There are many other wonderful benefits from having an institutional
> repository.  This is learning curve for everyone.  IRs are new for
> authors.  Right now, many don't know what they are, or why they would want
> to use them.  In time, I am completely convinced, that authors will come
> to wonder how they ever managed without.
>
> As one example of the benefits for the author, I can point people to all
> of my recent publications and presentations with just one URL.  How
> convenient!  Finding my own works in the IR is more convenient for me than
> trying to find them on my own desktop.  As an author, I just love my IR -
> and the wonderful staff who run it and help me with self-archiving;
> librarians, of course.
>
> If anyone is interested in looking at my recent works, or wants to see
> what I'm talking about, go to:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/autqd
>
> cheers,
>
> Heather Morrison