…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 [email protected]
