[OAI-general] Please Register All OA Institutional Archives

Stevan Harnad harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:54:49 +0100 (BST)


         *Apologies for cross-posting*

Tim Brody has created a Registry of Institutional OA Archives that
lists the known archives by Country, Type, and Software (Eprints,
Dspace, or other), harvested from celestial.

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse

It also displays the all-important graph of the number of items in each
archive, and tracks the growth of each archive across time.

But there are more OA Archives out there! 
Please register yours, or any you know of at:

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=add

Graphs charting the growth of total number of archives and total number
of archive items are also available:

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=analysis

If you want your archive counted, please register it!

All 146 registered archives can be viewed, or they can be browsed by
Country, Archive Type, or Archive Software. 

(Note that the category "Undefined" among countries -- with 59 archives
in it! -- occurs because these archives were harvested before the Registry
was created, and the country data was not explicit. These 59 archives
will be hand-reclassified. All new archives will have the country tag
at registration.)

Suggestions and corrections are welcome:

    http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=about

Country

    * Undefined (59)          (will be hand-classified)
    * United States (17)
    * United Kingdom (12)
    * France (10)
    * Canada (7)
    * Sweden (5)
    * NA/Other (5)
    * Australia (4)
    * Germany (3)
    * Educational (3)
    * Brazil (3)
    * Non-Profit Making Organisations (2)
    * China (2)
    * Network (2)
    * Belgium (2)
    * Italy (2)
    * South Africa (1)
    * Austria (1)
    * Slovenia (1)
    * Denmark (1)
    * Netherlands (1)
    * India (1)
    * Japan (1)
    * Ireland (1)

Repository Type

    * Research Institutional (83)
    * Research Subject Specific (17)
    * Demonstration (17)
    * e-Theses (15)
    * Non-Research/Other (7)
    * e-Journal/Publication (6)
    * Undefined (1)

Software

    * GNU EPrints v2 (105)
    * GNU EPrints v1 (19)
    * DSpace (12)
    * other (9)
    * (1)

Stevan Harnad