Other resources and links

OpenDOAR

An authoritative listing of over 1200 academic open access repositories. In addition, OpenDOAR provides tools and support to improve the quality of the repository infrastructure. Sponsored in part by SPARC Europe

DRIVER

DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories. A pan-European, EC supported project to promote repositories within Europe.

DAREnet

A hugely influential project to ensure that all Dutch academic research is made freely available worldwide

SHERPA

The UK’s project to encourage repository use in the research-intensive universities. A content-rich site that provides tools to help set-up , maintain, and fill institutional repositories

Repositories Support Project (RSP)

A JISC-funded initiative to provide support for the growth and development of repositories. Although focussed on the UK the resources should be of interest to anybody starting and maintaining a repository.

Building Repositories

There are a number of options for an institution wanting to build a repository. They can use open source or proprietary software. They can outsource to a third-party provider. They can go it alone or they can collaborate with other institutions to share expertise and costs. Some examples are given here.

OAIster

A search engine from the University of Michigan that harvests metadata from repositories and allows readers to perform seamless searches across all repositories. Currently, over 20 million records have been harvested from over 1100 repositories.

BASE

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) enables searching over 1000 selected content sources and 16 million scholarly documents, including many full text archives, accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archives Initiative (http://www.openarchives.org/).

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

A list of repositories maintained by Southampton University, including growth data.

Citebase Search

'Citebase Search is a semi-autonomous citation index for the free, online research literature. It harvests pre- and post- prints (most author self-archived) from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a search engine.'

The Depot

The UK has created a resource that allows all UK researchers to deposit their academic papers and other outputs under terms of Open Access, including those whose institution does not yet have a repository. Authors are advised to "put it in the Depot".

Policy-making for Research Data in Repositories: A Guide

A decision-making and planning tool for institutions with digital repositories that are considering adding research data to their digital collections. An output of the JISC-funded DISC-UK DataShare project, http://www.disc-uk.org/datashare.html