Institutional Repositories at Cross Purposes

OA advocates are working on getting universities and funders to mandate Green OA (as over 100 institutions, including Harvard and MIT, and over 40 funders, including NIH and all the UK funders, have already done). What BE Press seems to be advocating instead is to set aside filling IRs with the target OA content and focus instead on other useful things one can put into them and use them for. Well, by all means do other useful things with IRs too, if you like, but do it in addition to doing the most useful thing a university can do -- which is to mandate Green OA -- not instead.