>
> [Similar considerations, but on a much lesser scale,
militate
> against the strategy of universities out-sourcing the
creation
> and management of their IRs and self-archiving
policies to
> external contractors: accounting, archiving,
record-keeping and
> asset management should surely be kept under direct
local control
> by universities. There's nothing so complicated or
daunting about
> self-archiving and IRs as to require resorting to an
external
> service. (More tentatively, I am also sceptical that
library
> proxy self-archiving rather than direct author
self-archiving is
> a wise choice in the long run -- though it is
definitely a useful
> option as a start-up supplement, if coupled with a
mandate, and
> has been successfully implemented in several cases,
including QUT
> and CERN.)]
>
Similar considerations militate against the strategy of
scholars
and scientists out-sourcing the operating system of their
servers
to Microsoft, Apple, or Linux, and against the strategy of
out-sourcing server construction and chip design to Sun and
Intel. Clearly the preferred solution is for us all to
begin
shaking the sand out from between our ears and compacting
that
into silicon from which to make our own superior
home-crafted
microprocessors. Direct author self-archiving is a wise
choice
in the long run.
Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown
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