gathering storm

Three Gathering Storms that could cause collateral damage to OA and academia in general, is an article by Peter Suber in the March 2006 Open Access Newsletter, at:

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-06.htm#collateral

Rationale for institutional repositories

Here is an article by Steven Harnad discussing the need for self-archiving by scholars, and consequentially institutional repositories. The data is presented that supports the university wide development of ir's.

http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/12078/