Re: Successful university IRs

From: Stevan Harnad <harnad_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 14:09:52 +0000

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Bentum, M. van (Maarten, ITBE) wrote:

> In order to learn from universities having a successful policy and
> organization concerning the storage of scientific output in their own
> repository, I would like to know whether there is a list of most
> successful scientific repositories in terms of percentage of yearly
> scientific output stored in the institutional repository? Or can
> somebody give examples of universities having a high percentage of
> yearly scientific production stored in the institutional repository?

Arthur Sale has recently reported his studies along these lines:

    Sale, Arthur (2006) The Acquisition of Open Access Research
    Articles. First Monday 11(10) October: Three repositories with
    variants of a mandatory deposit policy are analyzed to see when
    researchers deposit their articles. It takes several years for a
    mandatory policy to be institutionalised and routinized, but once
    it has been, authors overwhelmingly deposit well before six months
    after publication date. The OA mantra of "deposit now, set open access
    when feasible" is shown to be not only reasonable, but fitting what
    researchers actually do.
    http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_10/sale/index.html

    Sale, Arthur (2006) Comparison of content policies for institutional
    repositories in Australia. First Monday 11(4) April: An analysis of
    seven Australian universities shows that a requirement to deposit
    research output into a repository coupled with effective author
    support policies works in Australia and delivers high levels of
    content. Voluntary deposit policies do not, regardless of any author
    support by the university. This is consistent with international data.
    http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/sale/index.html

See also:

    Yeomans, J. (2006) CERN's Open Access E-print Coverage in 2006 :
    Three Quarters Full and Counting. Libraries Webzine 12 March:
    CERN's open access e-print repository, CERN Document Server
    (CDS), contains open access full-text copies of nearly
    three quarters of its own recently-authored documents....
    http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/12/papers/2/

You can also view growth rates of IRs in ROAR, ranking them by their
total number of deposits (but of course this is not normalised as
percentage of annual research output -- though it eventually will be):

http://archives.eprints.org/?country=&version=&type=institutional&order=recordcount&submit=Filter

Stevan Harnad
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/

> Thanks a lot
> Regards,
>
>
> Maarten van Bentum
> Informatiespecialist Civil Engineering Techniek/Coordinator Electronic
> Publishing
> Service Center for Information Technology, Library and Education (ITBE)
> University of Twente
> Building Langezijds, room 3503
> tel +31534894474
> e-mail: m.vanbentum_at_utwente.nl
>
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