An upgraded version of the ROAR service http://roar.eprints.org/ has been debuted, thanks to recent JISC funding shared jointly between ROAR and OpenDOAR.
The Registry of Open Access Repositories, which provides the open access community with quantitative analyses of open access repositories across the world, has now been reworked as a repository itself. Collecting, updating and editing information about open access repositories is now part of a familiar repository workflow, and consequently much easier to handle. Open access repository managers can register for a ROAR account to enter and update information about their own repositories. We hope that the improved facilities will result in better quality information and an improved service for all stakeholders. Built on top of the information acquisition, storage and dissemination facilities of the EPrints repository platform, ROAR provides the following familiar features: - Cataloguing individual repositories and their attributes - Easy addition of information about new repositories - The option to share new repository information with OpenDOAR - Listing repositories by location, purpose and software platform - Analyses of the growth over time of individual repositories or groups of repositories - Searching for repositories by various properties - Searching the contents of groups of repositories using a Google Customised Search - Access to the OAI-PMH data obtained from the Celestial harvester Repository platforms have matured greatly in recent years, adapting to the challenge of managing a wide range of research outputs, data and different forms of scholarly material. It seems only appropriate that information about the repository community should itself be held in a repository, allowing for easier update, flexible dissemination and improved sharing with other registry services such as OpenDOAR. --- Les Carr & Tim Brody Registry of Open Access Repositories <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk> _______________________________________________ Arquivos da Bib_virtual: http://listas.ibict.br/pipermail/bib_virtual/ Instruções para desiscrever-se por conta própria: http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/options/bib_virtual Bib_virtual mailing list [email protected] http://listas.ibict.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bib_virtual
