Re: Open-Access Eprint Archive Registry

[Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

               ** Apologies for Cross-Posting **

Here are some recent data on the state of Open Access Eprint Archives
Worldwide (Registry created and maintained by Tim Brody, Southampton
University):

(1) The Institutional Archives Registry 
    http://archives.eprints.org/ recently updated, now indexes 388
archives in 39 countries.  (OAIster harvests from 405 archives, but some
of those are not OA Archives.)

(2) For most OA Archives the Registry tracks their monthly growth in
number of articles. There are also summary analyses by categories:
        * Research Institutional or Departmental (169)
        * Research Cross-Institution (49)
        * e-Theses (55)
        * e-Journal/Publication (32)
        * Database (8)
        * Demonstration (39)
        * Other (36)

(3) The top 10 countries (10 tied for 10th place) are:
        1 United States (114)
        2 United Kingdom (51)
        3 Germany (28)
        4 Canada (26)
        5 Sweden (17)
        5 France (17)
        6 Australia (16)
        6 Netherlands (16)
        7 Brazil (14)
        8 Italy (13)
        9 India (6)
       10 Spain (4)
       10 Japan (4)
       10 Denmark (4)
       10 Hungary (4)
       10 Finland (4)
       10 Belgium (4)
       10 China (4)

(4) The most widely used OAI-creating software packages:
        * GNU EPrints v2 & v2 (161)
        * DSpace (65)
        * CDSWare (3)
        * ARNO (2)
        * Fedora (1)
        * DiVA (1)
        * other (various) (155)

Time-plots of the growth in the number of archives:
    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis

Time-plots of the growth in the number of articles in each archive (if an
archive's data is missing, it means it is not yet celestial-compliant:
please contact the archive administrator to urge them to correct this so
their progress can be tracked):
    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all

If your institution has -- or you know of -- OAI-compliant OA archives,
please register them at:
    http://archives.eprints.org/index.php?action=add

If your institution has an OA self-archiving policy, please register it
at:
    http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php

For further information on institutional OA self-archiving, see:
    http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/presentations.html
and
    http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html

Stevan Harnad