> From: Stevan Harnad <[email protected]>
> Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Metadata indicating full-text deposits for
> institutional repositories
> Date: 30 October, 2012 8:42:53 AM EDT
> To: <[email protected]>
>
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> Bravo to Dirk and others for their efforts to create reliable full-text
> deposit metrics
> for institutional repositories.
>
> Let me just stress, though, that -- for our recent findings on the
> correlation between
> deposit-mandate-strength and deposits -- the fact that not all deposits are
> full-texts would
> work against, not for, detecting a correlation:
>
> The deposit-mandates are all full-text mandates, not metadata-mandates. Hence
> whatever the baseline ratio of full-text deposits to total deposits, a
> significant increase
> in total deposits with an increase in deposit-mandate strength is far more
> likely to
> be the result of an increase in full-text deposits than of other kinds of
> content, unrelated to what the deposit-mandate is mandating.
>
> That said, it would be splendid if repositories provided clearer and fuller
> metadata to indicate full-text deposits (and, in particular, full-text
> deposits
> of peer-reviewed research articles).
>
> Eprints and Dspace developers (and IR managers): Attention!
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
> On 2012-10-30, at 7:56 AM, Dirk Pieper <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Seb,
>>
>> the correct term for the "Number of documents" line should be "Number of
>> OAI PMH metadata records", but outside the information professional
>> world nobody will understand this I suppose. BASE is harvesting OAI
>> metadata only.
>>
>> You are adressing a very important question: what is the ratio of OAI
>> metadata and Open Access full texts?
>>
>> Of course there are repositories, which provide 100% open access, but on
>> the other hand we see that repositories are becoming more and more
>> platforms for exposing the whole publication output of an institution.
>> So it would be great, if repository managers would use setSPEC
>> information about open access to documents more often (there are enough
>> guidelines from DARE, DINI, DRIVER, OpenAire, ...).
>>
>> We are trying to indicate real open access to documents within BASE
>> soon, but I fear that we can indicate this information only for a small
>> portion of the metadata.
>>
>> Best
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>> Am 30.10.2012 10:45, schrieb Seb Schmoller:
>>> Dirk,
>>> In the chart does the "Number of documents" line represent "full text
>>> records" or "full text records and metadata only records", and if the
>>> latter is there easily extractable data for each? (Apologies if these
>>> terms are not strictly accurate.)
>>> Seb Schmoller
>>>
>>> On 30/10/2012 08:14, Dirk Pieper wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> BASE has currently indexed 2.356 repositories, which is more than
>>>> OpenDoar but less than ROAR have listed.
>>>>
>>>> This page shows the growth since 2004:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.base-search.net/about/en/about_statistics.php?menu=2
>>>>
>>>> Because we administer the BASE repository list every week when updating
>>>> the index, we can assure, that there are not so many skeletons in the
>>>> BASE index.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> Dirk
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