madtom writes “Today’s Chronicle has a story about how institutional repositories, such as MIT’s D-space, need to be marketed more agressively to convince faculty to contribute.
MIT, like most colleges, rewards faculty members with tenure and promotion based on their success at getting published in respected scholarly journals. As a result, professors do not have much incentive to put their material in an experimental online archive such as DSpace.
“For posterity it’s great to have all this stuff preserved,” says Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. “But for any given person there’s not really any short-run benefit.” Mr. Brynjolfsson is director of Sloan’s Center for e-Business and serves on DSpace’s faculty advisory board.
He has 17 of his working papers in DSpace, but Mr. Brynjolfsson says most people gain access to his papers by going to his personal Web page.”
Update: 06/21 13:52 EST by B: If I put a D-space instance on LISHost would anyone be interested in using it? A D-space sandbox perhaps? Let Me Know.
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does everyone have a password to this but me?
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No one has a password to it, unless you already have a subscription to the Chronicle, I think. I’d like to read the article too!
No registrations!
I would really be in favor of not posting stories that require registration. Can we make a rule?
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I’d be in favor of it, especially if it requires a paid subscription. I think nytimes is ok since you don’t have to PAY to see the recent articles.
Isn’t there something you can do to generate temporary free/no registration URLS for some of the chronicle articles that are usually paid? I swear I’ve seen this when some articles have been posted to listservs.
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My personal rule is avoid paid registrations for things that are not widely available, and avoid free registrations out side of the major papers.
I’ve felt that for The Chronicle, and the WSJ a link is ok, assuming we have a good summary, and remind people that it’s reg. req. Since you can find them both in many libraries, it’s a safe bet that many people can find a way to read it if they’re interested.
I really do understand the point to not doing this though. And I think tangonat is correct there is a way to do a temp URL for some stories on chronicle.com.