This article was very interesting for me because my employer is a university. Our new library director wants to establish an institutional repository. From an administrative standpoint, it has been frustrating at times for me to find that institutional materials on past fundraising campaigns were not available, and this applies to many other documents that form our institution's history. I also agreed with Lynch's concern for faculty having to do their own digital work creation, dissemination and storage. In hard copy publishing, we don't expect to be able to escort faculty to the computers and printing machines to produce the manuscript, book or journal so why would we do the same with digital format? Even the simple systems can be daunting for people that have little training or aptitude for it.
I'm glad that there is movement toward making repositories a necessity rather than a luxury.
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Hm, good point about the faculty doing their own publishing of articles in journals, I hadn't made that equation. I'm actually surprised that more universities haven't begun to institute repsostories, or that the ones that have are not more highly advertised... They seem like no-brainers to me.
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