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Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...