Re: Submission in repositories by people other than authors

[Atanu Garai <atanugarai.lists@gmail.com>]

Thomas Krichel wrote:

> 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.
Toby, Thomas:

Thanks for these replies. However, we are working closely to the 
model that RePec is following except that we are keen to have the 
full text of the document in our database (for various reasons). 
One reason is that is you try to download/ open links URLs/ 
files, many of them are returning with problem loading page/ 550 
failed to change directory 
(http://ideas.repec.org/p/rjr/wpmems/071505.html) messages. This 
is quite normal when we have a distributed database and metadata 
is harvested and/or collected.

Atanu Garai
Globethics.net