RE: lib-ir: Good news

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

I like this suggestion.

Carol

At 03:51 PM 8/13/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On collection name, I recommend that we try to standardize on 
>"<department> Working Papers" or "<department> Papers" and not include the 
>word "faculty".  In most departments, the community will want to accept 
>submissions from people who may have somewhat ambiguous status, e.g. post 
>docs or even advanced graduate students.
>
>We also want to try to avoid generic names like "Working Papers" since 
>some dspace lists present the collection name without saying which 
>community it's in.  If you try to submit to dspace you'll get a pulldown 
>list of collections, and it's going to be very confusing if there are 42 
>different collections all named "Working Papers".
>
>So, I propose that the PPPM community get an additional collection named 
>something like
>     PPPM Papers
>     PPPM Working Papers
>or somesuch.
>
>In "Psychology Working Papers" you'll find at least 3 different kinds of 
>things submitted by Jennifer Freyd:
>     - reprints of published articles
>     - true "working papers", usually prepared as tutorials and designed 
> to be available on the web
>     - a conference presentation, consisting of slides from the PPT 
> presentation and some additional supporting materials.