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From:
Christopher Kelty <cke...@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [OAA] Green or Gold OA for the AAA?
To:
mesm...@asu.eduMike,
Agreed, the AAA is not going to set up a respository any time soon. I'm not sure what's up with Manao, except that it runs solely on Alex's free labor and he's in PNG right now.
If your institution does not have a repository set up, you have a couple of options.
1. simply post it to your own website
2. check here for another repository:
http://roar.eprints.org/?action=browse3. use SSRN, which is probably the biggest and closest to what anthros do. I don't like the fact that they allow advertising and that they try to make you sign up before accessing, but those are aesthetic objections.
Repositories take a lot of work. Dorothea Salo (
http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/) has written extensively about the hidden labor involved in setting one up and getting it to work well, and most institutions do not recognize the amount of labor involved. With the spread of mandates, like Harvard's OA mandate, there is increasingly room to demand that such repos be adequately funded, but it is slow.
And Green vs. Gold is not an either or. As I suggested, one can organize to start a new journal at the same time that one self-archives work published in other places... so yes, do both!
ck