lib-ir: Fwd: Re: Symposia and institutional repository

[Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

Another response to a query I sent.

Carol

>Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 22:07:39 -0700
>From: "Susan C. Anderson" <susana@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Symposia and institutional repository
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>To: Carol Hixson <chixson@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
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>Dear Carol,
>         Thanks for your informative message. I passed it on to David 
> Luebke, the new Chair of the German and Scandinavian Studies Committee.
>         Our department sponsors guest lectures and a work-in-progress 
> series, and it might be helpful to have the talks in an online 
> repository. However, I can imagine that some speakers might be reluctant 
> to have unpublished work available for others to peruse. What if someone 
> incorporates this unpublished research into their own research without 
> giving credit? How protected would the unpublished work be?
>         Some of the journals in my field, German literary and cultural 
> studies, have online archives for  earlier issues. Most scholarship is 
> still published in conventional print journals. It would be helpful to 
> have an online repository for already published research by our faculty.
>         I use the Web for courses and for obtaining research but not for 
> disseminating any "preprint" research of my own.
>         This is all I can think of in response to your questions. Hope 
> this helps.
>
>Best wishes,
>Susan