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How institutional repositories are already working to solve the Open Access problem

Posted in Research on March 14th, 2013 by steve

“Last week, Mike Taylor discussed his concerns on institutional repositories as an adequate solution to the open access problem and asked Green OA advocates to address these problems …” (more)

[Natalia Madjarevic and others, Impact of Social Sciences, 14 March]

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Institutional repositories have work to do if they’re going to solve the access problem

Posted in Research on March 6th, 2013 by steve

“The Green Open Access route, which encourages the use of institutional repositories for depositing manuscripts as drafts or after a publisher’s embargo period, seems to many in the Humanities and Social Sciences like a more agreeable way to widen access to scholarly work. Mike Taylor is not convinced …” (more)

[Impact of Social Sciences, 6 March]

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