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Repositories in the Cloud? Why on Earth Not? -

(ajax.sys-con): These frequently under-populated aggregations of academic papers produced by ‘research active’ employees of a particular university appear aligned almost exclusively to vaguely expressed institutional imperatives, and seem largely unrelated to either the selfish aspirations of the contributing authors or the tangible relationships they painstakingly construct with others across their chosen discipline. The ‘repository’ all too often appears a bureaucratic solution to a problem that the supposed beneficiaries do not recognise; a technological aberration that sits outside the conversational flow of the Web to which it is only tenuously attached.

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