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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