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What is the difference between distributed and central self-archiving?

April 26, 2017difference distributed self-archiving

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What is the difference between distributed and central self-archiving?

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All OAI-compliant Eprint Archives are interoperable. This means their contents are harvestable by cross-archive search engines such as OAIster or citebase into global virtual archives. Hence OAI has eliminated the difference between self-archiving documents in one central archive or many distributed archives. Users need not know where documents are located in order to find, browse and retrieve them (any more than they do when they are using commercial indexing or abstracting services); and the full texts are all retrievable.