(openaccess.eprints.org): The Wellcome Trust -- the very first research funder to mandate OA self-archiving -- is looking into resolving the problem of multiple deposit (IRs and multiple CRs, Central Repositories).The solution will have to be bottom-up (IRs to CRs) not top-down (CRs to IRs) for the simple reason that the world's institutions (i.e., universities and research institutes) are the providers of all research, not just funded research, and the solution has to be one that facilitates universal institutional deposit mandates, not just funder mandates. IRs and CRs are interoperable. So, in principle, automatic import/export could be from/to either direction.
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