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title: 'On Repositories'
date: '2006-04-19T08:57:00-04:00'
permalink: /on-repositories/
tags:
    - mediacommons
---

A very interesting post today by [Jill Walker](http://jilltxt.net/?p=1658) on institutional repositories, their benefits, and the ways that they fall short of the ideal networked publication archive she’d like. There’s of course a key difference between the repository and the kind of publishing environment that I’m imagining in ElectraPress — the repository is a somewhat secondary storage facility for the publications of a cluster of scholars, rather than a primary locus of publishing in and of itself — but I think there’s still much to consider in the issues that Jill raises.