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| Pasted by: | edsu |
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| The trouble with many Institutional Repositories (IRs) (besides the fact that they don't have a deposit mandate) is that they are not run by researchers but by "permissions professionals," accustomed to being mired in institutional author IP protection issues and institutional library 3rd-party usage rights rather than institutional author research give-aways. ... Institutions that have no deposit mandate have simply ceded the whole procedure to IP people who are not qualified even to understand the research access/impact problem, let alone solve it. All they are accustomed to thinking about is restrictions on incoming content, whereas the purpose of an OA IR is to allow researchers to make their own findings -- outgoing content -- accessible to other researchers webwide. |
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