Re: Submission in repositories by people other than authors

[Thomas Krichel <krichel@openlib.org>]

Toby.GREEN@oecd.org writes

> As you probably know, Repec is to economists what ArXiv is to 
> physicists. Repec invites authors to post content, but it is 
> also happy to have the institution do the posting on behalf of 
> authors.

RePEc is not a publisher, but a library, based on on aggregation 
of over 800 publishers called RePEc archives. So it's at a higher 
level than arXiv.

> At OECD, where we produce around 100 working papers a year, the
> posting has been done by OECD's Publishing unit on behalf of authors
> since end-2005. Before that, authors self-posted, but only around
> 20% of the papers were actually posted.

For the anecdote, the OECD RePEc archive takes the biscuit for 
being the slowest one to open in the time I was involved with 
opening RePEc archives. Wim Suyker, an economist at OECD wrote to 
me about opening it on 6 July 1999. It was open on 4 October. The 
delay was caused by Wim only having access to the server every 
Friday afternoon during some tiny time window. Ah, the bad old 
days!

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
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