On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alastair Dunning wrote:
> One of the reason that the Cambridge number is so high is because they
> use DSpace for all kinds of content, not just journal articles.
>
> Looking through the collections (http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/) there are
> corporate publications from the Fitzwilliam Museum, archaeological data,
> videos from lectures on sustainable development, Ph.D. theses on
> material science, photos from an anniversary party for the chemical
> engineering department. There are also thousands of photographs from the
> Scott Polar Institute's digitisation project of historic polar images.
>
> Using an IR for this much broader purpose not only preserves a valuable
> preservation facility for these types of grey literature and rich
> content, but also engages the university community much more quickly.
> The function of an IR is much more readily apparent when somebody
> realises they need to have a home for these types of valuable content.
Alternatively, the filling of an IR with all these other kinds of
content -- not OA's target content -- for all these other purposes,
masks how well the IR is actually doing on OA content (and, worse,
distracts from the goal of providing OA's actual target content).
Stevan Harnad
> Alastair
>
> Alastair Dunning
> JISC Digitisation Programme Manager
> t: 0203 006 6065
>
> JISC Office (1st Floor)
> Brettenham House (South Entrance)
> 5 Lancaster Place
> London WC2E 7EN
>
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation/
> http://availableonline.wordpress.com/
>
>
>
>
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> From: Repositories discussion list
> [mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES_at_JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of
> C.Oppenheim_at_lboro.ac.uk
> Sent: 22 October 2008 16:47
> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES_at_JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Tracking Open Access Institutional Repository Growth
> Worldwide
>
>
> DSpace_at_Cambridge 192,000 items! presumably there is a story behind that
> amazing figure??
>
> Charles
>
>
> Professor Charles Oppenheim
> Head
> Department of Information Science
> Loughborough University
> Loughborough
> Leics LE11 3TU
>
> Tel 01509-223065
> Fax 01509 223053
> e mail c.oppenheim_at_lboro.ac.uk
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Repositories discussion list
> [mailto:JISC-REPOSITORIES_at_JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
> Sent: 22 October 2008 16:34
> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES_at_JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Tracking Open Access Institutional Repository Growth Worldwide
>
>
> (Thanks to Peter Suber
> <http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2008/10/another-way-to-monitor-growt
> h-of-green.html> and Charles Bailey
> <http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2008/10/21/repository> for
> drawing attention to this item.)
>
> Repository Records Statistics <http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/>
>
> Chris Keene <mailto:chriskeene_at_gmail.com>
>
> This website provides data on the number of records in UK Institutional
> Respositories over time. The data was collected from late summer 2006,
> and has been collected weekly ever since. Since August 2008 is has
> collected data for Institutional Repositories worldwide.
>
> The data is from the excellent ROAR <http://roar.eprints.org/> based at
> the University of Southampton (ECS).
>
> Where to start? Have a look at the table below (first link), it shows
> the number of records in each repository (registered in ROAR) for each
> week since July 2006. You can reorder the table, download the data (e.g.
> in to excel) and select individual repositories. Also check out the
> comparison page, which can be reached by first selectinig an IR on the
> right and then selecting an IR to compare with. Finally the info page
> <http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/info.php> is worth a read for details
> of what you are actually looking at, and issues with the data and
> presentation.
>
> * Table showing number of records in instiutional repositories
> over time (United Kingdom)
> <http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/table.php?country=uk>
> * Click on one of the Repositories on the right, for info about
> that IR and the ability to compare it with others. (see an example here
> <http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/compare.php?id1=http://eprints.sussex.ac
> .uk/20061117025123&id2=http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/20061117025144&id3=http%
> 3A%2F%2Fepubs.surrey.ac.uk%2F20060504104814> )
> * Table view of random guess at totals of full text items in UK
> IRs over time (very experiemental, i.e. rubbish)
> <http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/fulltext1a.php> . This table is still UK
> only.
>
> Read more: Introduction, details, help and more
> <http://www.nostuff.org/ircount/info.php>
>
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