Open Access: Query About CogPrints (Central vs. Institutional Deposit)

The notion of direct central deposit was made obsolete by the OAI harvesting protocol. The idea is the same as with Google: we don't deposit centrally in Google; we deposit content locally, and Google harvests. With research, there are disciplines and countries and funders, and if any or many of them want their own central collection, they need merely harvest it. No need to have researchers depositing willy-nilly here and there, to fulfill funder mandates or to fill disciplinary repositories. Depositing once, in their own institution's IR is enough, and the rest is just a matter of automated import/export and/or harvesting. Moreover, distributed local IRs cost far less to create and maintain than central repositories, because they distribute both the cost and the load.