Comments on: Digital repositories. An update to the update. http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=7553 Chemistry with a twist Wed, 22 May 2013 12:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Sn2 reaction: followed up. « Henry Rzepa http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=7553&cpage=1#comment-10784 The Sn2 reaction: followed up. « Henry Rzepa Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:26:44 +0000 http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=7553#comment-10784 [...] Digital repository entries [...]

]]> By: Henry Rzepa http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=7553&cpage=1#comment-10346 Henry Rzepa Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:46:28 +0000 http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=7553#comment-10346 I just received an email from James Moses. It summarises a report on Institutional Digital Repositories (you have to pay to get this). Two of the conclusions sent to me in the email (no disclaimer says I cannot include this here) are:

“• The mean annual budget of the (38) repositories in the sample is $84,240.
• The mean number of man-hours of librarian and librarian technician labor required per year to operate and market the digital repository is 3,186.5″

Wow, if that were indeed the true cost of running a repository for chemistry, then I think the small number we have would continue to be just that, small!

It would nevertheless be interesting to see what the cost of say starting up and operating a Chempound repository would be. I fancy very significantly less than the figures above might suggest.

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