Following the LOCKSS principle, I personally support both
institutional and central repositories. Depositing in both may also
help to disseminate research more widely.
Being Devil's advocate however, I can understand why research funding
agencies would want to stipulate specific central repositories in
their OA mandates. If you are serious about policing compliance, it
is much simpler for a research funder to monitor a central repository
than a myriad of institutional repositories.
Of course for institutional mandates it is the other way round.
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Peter Millington
SHERPA Technical Development Officer
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Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, England
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/ - Research funders' open access
policies
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/ - Publishers' copyright and archiving
policies
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