DL or OA?
“I don’t bother with research self-archiving because it’s just a small subcomponent of the Institutional Digital Library of the future, and not the first or highest priority .” Reaching 100% Open Access is an urgent, specific, focussed priority for research institutions. The purpose is to put an end to the needless loss of institutional research impact, productivity and progress that occurs just because researchers at other institutions who wish to access, use, apply, and build upon any given institution’s research output cannot all do so, because their own institution cannot afford the journal in which the research happens to be published. The library community can play an invaluable role in solving this problem if it stays focussed on the solution, which is to fill their own institution’s dedicated Open Access Institional Repositories (OA IRs) with 100% of their own annual institutional research output (primarily journal articles and theses) as quickly as possible. If libraries inste
