…what the UK repository world looks like today

Stuart LewisInformation ServicesUniversity of Wales Aberystwyth

Contents Repositories Software use▪ DSpace▪ EPrints▪ Fedora

Big players / useful projects New projects

Where we are today:

In the UK (101 repositories):

Top repositories Cambridge – 188,679 items Southampton EPrints – 25,666 CCLRC ePublication Archive – 23,825 ECS at Southampton – 11,388 Glasgow – 3,029 … (average ≈ 300)

Aberystwyth – 255 Cardiff – 126

ROAR Registry of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org/ Harvests data using OAI-PMH Data harvested from ROAR using OAI-PMH / plain text

files

OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories http://opendoar.org/ Data harvested, categorised and described by hand Data harvested from OpenDOAR using the OpenDOAR

API

Growth chart From http://roar.eprints.org/

Worldwide: DSpace: 242 EPrints: 230 Fedora: 7 Open Repository: 8

UK: DSpace: 23 EPrints: 55 Fedora: 0 Open Repository: 4

Register with: ROAR – http://roar.eprints.org/▪ Good for statistics▪ Allows inclusion into other tools such as

http://maps.repository66.org/ OpenDOAR – http://opendoar.org/▪ Your record will be checked by hand – make

sure you are a compliant repository OAISter – http://www.oaister.org/▪ Have your contents indexed and searchable

(indexed via OAI-PMH)

Register with: Google – http://www.google.com/▪ Have your contents indexed and searchable

Google Scholar – http://scholar.google.com/▪ Have your contents indexed and searchable

(indexed via OAI-PMH)

SHERPA RoMEO Publishers’ copyright policies

SHERPA JULIET Research council mandates

ROARMAP Institutional deposit mandates

JISC funded proejcts: ART: An ontology-based article

preparation tool EThOSnet RIOJA: Repository Interface for Overlaid

Journal Archives Robot-generated Open Access Data

(ROAD) Simple Web Service Offering Repository

Deposit (SWORD) The Depot Welsh Repository Network

http://maps.repository66.org/ More filters▪ Country▪ Type▪ Possibly subject

Search▪ See the geographic spread of results▪ Useful?

Stuart Lewisstuart.lewis@aber.ac.uk