-----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: [BOAI] Re: Please Register All OA Institutional Archives "Please Register All OA Institutional Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3715.html On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jan Velterop wrote:
There is this beautiful statistic of how many publishers allow, in various shades and colours, self-archiving.
http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php
Is there information available about how many, what percentage, or which institutes actually have an (active, i.e. not shelved) open institutional archive for self-archiving? Having that information could help enormously in the campaign to speed up open access. Any pointers to such information?
There is this beautiful statistic of how many publishers allow, in various shades and colours, self-archiving. http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php http://romeo.eprints.org/stats.php Is there information available about how many, what percentage, or which institutes actually have an (active, i.e. not shelved) open institutional archive for self-archiving? Having that information could help enormously in the campaign to speed up open access. Any pointers to such information? Yes, there certainly is! There is the Institutional Archives Registry (created and maintained by Tim Brody at Southampton), which lists OAI archives not only by country and archive type and software used http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse but also the content size and growth curves for each individual archive http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all as well as the total growth rate for archives and contents across all
Yes, there certainly is! There is the Institutional Archives Registry (created and maintained by Tim Brody at Southampton), which lists OAI archives not only by country and archive type and software used http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse but also the content size and growth curves for each individual archive http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all as well as the total growth rate for archives and contents across all the OAI archives http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis All institutions are strongly encouraged to register their OAI archives at: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=add and to make sure their archive has an OAI-PMH interface so its content size can be harvested and counted by http://celestial.eprints.org/ They are also encouraged to declare and share their institutional self-archiving policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Stevan Harnad FW: [BOAI] Re: Please Register All OA Institutional Archives -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [ mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk mailto:harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk ] Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: [BOAI] Re: Please Register All OA Institutional Archives "Please Register All OA Institutional Archives" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3715.html http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3715.html On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jan Velterop wrote: the OAI archives http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis All institutions are strongly encouraged to register their OAI archives at: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=add http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=add and to make sure their archive has an OAI-PMH interface so its content size can be harvested and counted by http://celestial.eprints.org/ http://celestial.eprints.org/ They are also encouraged to declare and share their institutional self-archiving policy at: http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php http://www.eprints.org/signup/fulllist.php Stevan Harnad