Open DOAR and ROAR RSP Services Day Bath
Open. DOAR and ROAR RSP Services Day, Bath, 15 th Jan. 2009 Peter Millington SHERPA Technical Development Officer SHERPA, University of Nottingham peter. millington@nottingham. ac. uk http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Outline • Overview of open access repository lists – What are they used for? • Open access repositories – The context • • Open. DOAR’s facilities ROAR’s facilities Searching the content of OA repositories Mashing up Open. DOAR and ROAR http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Open. DOAR & ROAR, etc. • Open. DOAR – 1300 records – Directory of Open Access Repositories – SHERPA, University of Nottingham • ROAR – 1239 records – Registry of Open Access Repositories – EPrints. org, University of Southampton • Other OA Repository lists – OAIster – OAI Registered Data Providers – 1066 records – 941 records • DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Open Access Repositories Worldwide http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Growth of Open. DOAR Database http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Growth of Repository Content http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Uses of Open. DOAR & ROAR • Finding open access repositories • Source lists for harvesters – Search services – e. g. Intute RS – Data mining • • • Searching the content of OA repositories Analysis of repositories’ features Statistics for Open Access advocacy Funding policy decisions Third party mash-ups – e. g. Repository 66 http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
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Open. DOAR Facilities • Listing of OA repositories geographically • Searching for OA repositories – By keyword, language, country, software, etc. • Charting & Mapping – Statistical charts (16 headings) for any search – Google Maps for any search • Searching the content of OA repositories – Using Google’s Custom Search Engine • Tools – API, Policies Tool, RSS Feed http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
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ROAR Facilities • Searching for OA repositories – By keyword, country, software, content type • Thumbnail images of home pages • Statistical charts – Growth of repository content – Content type statistics • Searching the content of OA repositories – Using Google’s Custom Search Engine http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
ROAR Repository Growth Chart http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
ROAR Pie Chart http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
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Open. DOAR & ROAR Compared Open. DOAR ROAR Search by keyword Filter by: Repository type, Software, Country, Language, Content type, Subject area Analytical statistics Filter by: Repository type, Software, Country API, Policies Tool Celestial - Harvesting analytics database Content growth statistics http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Collection Approaches Open. DOAR Repositories only ROAR Repositories Some open access journals Must have some open access full texts Allows metadata-only and gated access items Suggestions & Proactive discovery Manual validation Self-registration only Taken on trust + some automated validation http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Content Searching • Open. DOAR & ROAR use Google CSE • Uses Google’s indexes & technology – Just searches URLs listed in the database • Focussed search results – High probability of open access full text items – Unlike Google Scholar & Google per se • Benefits for… – Under-resourced institutions – Unaffiliated & off-campus researchers http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
Repository 66 Mash-up • Developed by Stuart Lewis, Aberystwyth • Interactive worldwide repository map – Repository software used – Repository size – Descriptive data • Combining… – – ROAR data Open. DOAR data via the API Coordinates look-up using www. maxmind. com Google Maps / Google Earth http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
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Any questions? • Open. DOAR – http: //www. opendoar. org/ • ROAR – http: //roar. eprints. org/ • Repository 66 – http: //www. repository 66. org/ http: //www. sherpa. ac. uk/
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