Bell making ready to toll?
The beginning of the end for the institutional repository? You tell me.
I have to prepare an internal study about the usage of the documents available into Archimer, our Institutional repository, to justify the work we do on it.
We all know what I think, right? I even brought that opinion up-to-date recently.
I confess I’m a little surprised that this request didn’t come from a US repository. I’m also surprised that they seem to be focusing on downloads rather than uploads, so to speak, although I have the uncomfortable feeling that downloads may be all the ground they feel they can defend, and it’s crumbling under them.
I’m not surprised at all to see an IR forced to justify its existence. I’ll be utterly astonished if Archimer is the only one in the next year or three.
Go ahead and click over. The money quote I gave above isn’t the meat of the email. I’m still trying to work through the implications in my own head.