Two of the library's hourly staff joined me in processing, as time
permits, the "low-hanging fruit" described in my recent viewpoint column
in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.
George S. Porter, Let's Get it Started! Issues in Science and
Technology Librarianship, Summer 2006.
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http://www.istl.org/06-summer/viewpoints.html>
The other key event, reflected in the graphic, is a May 2005 decision to
personally begin harvesting and processing said "low-hanging fruit",
rather than waiting for faculty to volunteer administrative staff for
training.
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George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
Telephone (626) 395-3409 Fax (626) 431-2681
http://library.caltech.edu
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-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Carr [mailto:lac_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:14 AM
To: American Scientist Open Access Forum
Cc: George Porter
Subject: Re: Practice what you preach (fwd)
On 23 Aug 2006, at 15:52, Stevan Harnad forwarded George Porter's
comments:
> Lest anyone think that, to use the Texas idiom, I'm "all hat, no
> cattle"
> I'd like to point out that CaltechAUTHORS
> <http://authors.library.caltech.edu/> has surpassed the 4000 record
> mark.
The deposit history for CaltechAUTHORS is graphed in ROAR (included
below, if it makes it through the AMSCI mailing software, otherwise
use the URL).
The graph shows a clear acceleration in deposit rates in December
2005 - from about 150/month to 400/month. The repository has
quadrupled in size in that time.
What happened at Caltech that caused such a change in deposit rates?
--
Les Carr
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