…what the UK repository world looks like today Stuart Lewis Information Services University 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   Harvests data using OAI-PMH  Data harvested from ROAR using OAI-PMH / plain text files  OpenDOAR  Directory of Open Access Repositories   Data harvested, categorised and described by hand  Data harvested from OpenDOAR using the OpenDOAR API  Growth chart  From

 Worldwide:  DSpace: 242  EPrints: 230  Fedora: 7  Open Repository: 8  UK:  DSpace: 23  EPrints: 55  Fedora: 0  Open Repository: 4

 Register with:  ROAR – ▪ Good for statistics ▪ Allows inclusion into other tools such as  OpenDOAR – ▪ Your record will be checked by hand – make sure you are a compliant repository  OAISter – ▪ Have your contents indexed and searchable (indexed via OAI-PMH)

 Register with:  Google – ▪ Have your contents indexed and searchable  Google Scholar – ▪ 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

  More filters ▪ Country ▪ Type ▪ Possibly subject  Search ▪ See the geographic spread of results ▪ Useful?

Stuart Lewis