Re: OpenDOAR: over 1,000 Repositories

["Anthony Watkinson" <anthony.watkinson@btopenworld.com>]

I would like to add that you can find under "any content type" at 
http://www.opendoar.org/find.php information about what types of 
content are accepted by which depositories. This has some 
relevance to some previous discussions on this list but 
unfortunately the classifications are rather vague and apparently 
overlapping. How was this classification arrived at or is it just 
taking what the repositories themselves report?

Anthony Watkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Morrison" <heatherm@eln.bc.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:10 AM
Subject: OpenDOAR: over 1,000 Repositories

> Congratulations to OpenDOAR on surpassing the milestone of over 1,000
> repositories!
>
> SHERPA's OpenDOAR directory contains an authoritative, vetted list of
> institutional and subject repositories.
>
> JISC Announcement: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/11/sherpa.aspx
>
> Thanks to Peter Suber on Open Access News:
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/11/sherpa.aspx
>
> Libraries and librarians are responsible for leading in the development of
> a great many of these repositories.
>
> Data from repository search tools such as OAIster and Scientific Commons
> illustrate that these repositories are beginning to fill. As of today, an
> OAIster http://www.oaister.org/ search encompasses nearly 14 million
> items; Scientific Commons http:// www.scientificcommons.org/, close to
> 16.5 million items.
>
> As the repositories begin to fill, the value to our faculty and university
> administrators will become obvious.
>
> An institutional repository can be, among other things, a gathering of an
> author's works, complete with citations to the journals in which the works
> were published.  This is not only greater access for everyone, it is a
> convenience to the author as well.  (Much less important than the key
> benefit of the IR to the author, enhanced impact through more citations,
> of course).
>
> For the university administrator, the IR is a showcase of the work of the
> institution.  An open access article in the IR is available for showing to
> a potential donor, community group, or prospective student; no permissions
> involved, hence no costs, barriers, or delays.
>
> Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is that of the author alone, and does
> not represent the opinion or policy of BC Electronic Library Network or
> Simon Fraser University Library.
>
> Heather Morrison, MLIS
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