Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:51:41 +0530 (IST)
From: MP Tapaswi
500+ Records in NIO?s Institutional Repository
The Institutional Repository of the National Institute of Oceanography
(NIO) Goa, India - http://drs.nio.org - crossed 500 full-text records
(Journal articles, conference articles, book chapters, theses, etc) on 1
December 2006 since it?s launching during end March 2006. Within a short
span of eight months, there are over 35,000 downloads from over 100
countries. How was this achieved?:
124 articles published by NIO?s authors during the year 2006 are up.
Thanks to the authors who resourced these. Many of them have learnt the
art of self-archiving (uploading on DRS) and few sought help of the
library.
Other articles range for the period 2000-2005. NIO library obtained
permissions from Indian publishers to upload these. These have been
uploaded after scan and OCR. This has helped increasing the size of DRS.
Very little portion of this does include grey literature (theses, reports,
etc.).
DRS is one among the very few institutional repositories in the field of
Marine Sciences all over the world.
The contents of DRS is harvested by: OAIster (Global harvester for archives), Google Scholar, Avano (Marine and aquatic science harvester from France) and CASSIR (Indian archives harvester at IISc, India).
Visit DRS!
- Murari P Tapaswi, National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula 403 004 Goa, India
Phone: 91-0832-2450 275, Fax: 01-0832-2450 602, URL: http://www.nio.org
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