Bill Hubbard, Using institutional repositories to raise compliance

"The situation that we seem to have, therefore, is of an already existing network of [institutional] repositories with institutional staff assigned to deal with deposit, but without any overriding incentive for authors to use them: and the development of a complementary network of Funder-repositories, where there is an incentive for authors to deposit, but with no on-site assistance and low compliance....I think the best solution is to engage with institutional repository managers, who would be able to provide authors on the spot assistance with depositing material....If funders ask their authors to deposit into the institutional repository, then it is a simple matter for the Funder-based repository to harvest material (metadata and full-text) from the institutional repository...."