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EPrints: "World's Best Practice"
** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
In case there is even the slightest of doubts about which software I recommend for creating and maintaining an Open Access Institutional Repository (OA IR), it is, of course, GNU EPrints:
EPrints is free: the world's first, most widely used, and *by far* the most functional of all the available OA IR softwares. It is created for and specifically focussed on OA functionality, with the most advanced features, being designed and added
continuously by the EPrints developmental team, as it keeps up
with (and indeed often leads) the accelerating development and evolving needs of the worldwide OA movement.
Enough said. See the testimonials (and add your own!) at:
http://www.eprints.org/news/features/worlds_best_practice.php
To find out exactly what the focus is on and for, see:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/
Now, assuming you already have an EPrints (or other) OA IR, you can go
back to lobbying for OA self-archiving mandates for your institution and research funder, the current number-one priority!
Generic Rationale and Model for University Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
A National Open Access Policy
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/weaker-OApolicy.htm
But don't forget to register your IR in ROAR (Registry of Open Access
Repositories):
and to register your OA IR policy in ROARMAP:
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/policysignup/
Your arch archivangelist,
Stevan Harnad
http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-For...
PS Ceterum Censeo: *All* OA texts and their metadata should be directly deposited locally, in the author's own OA IR. That is the primary content-provider. If it is desired to also include them in one or more central repositories such as PubMed Central
or Arxiv, they can and should be *harvested* from the local OA IR. EPrints is implementing automatizable import/export features for doing just that: Exporting to central repositories, as well as importing from them (e.g., papers already deposited centrally prior to the creation of the local IR).