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This is a list of frequently asked questions on digital repositories and related issues ...

Q1: Are there any lists, directories or registries of digital repositories in the UK, or worldwide?

Based on questions posed to jiscmail mailing lists by Howard Noble and Alesia Zuccala, October 2005.

  • Institution Archives Registry at the University of Southampton The registry has two functions: "(1) to monitor overall growth in the number of eprint archives and (2) to maintain a list of GNU EPrints sites (the software Southampton University has designed to facilitate self-archiving)". The registry can be filtered by country, software (e.g. GNU eprints, DSpace, Bepress etc.) or content type. It is possible to register an archive. The registry uses OAI-PMH and is maintained by Tim Brody.
  • OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories "A new service is starting development to support the rapidly emerging movement towards Open Access to research information. The new service, called OpenDOAR, will categorise and list the wide variety of Open Access research archives that have grown up around the world." Funded by the OSI, JISC and CURL and SPARCEurope.
  • Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) "A machine readable registry of electronic resources. The aim of the IESR is to make it easier for other applications to discover and use materials which will help their users' learning, teaching and research. The IESR describes electronic resources within the JISC Information Environment." To enable machine access to its data the IESR provides interfaces according to several standard protocols: Web, Z39.50, OAI-PMH and OpenURL; a SRW interface and investigation of UDDI are also planned.
  • The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) The OAI site maintains lists of data providers ("these participants administer systems that support the OAI protocol as a means of exposing metadata about the content in their repository" and service providers ("these participants issue OAI protocol requests to the systems of data providers and use the returned metadata as a basis for building value-added services"). Visitors to the site can register for inclusion in either list.
  • Experimental OAI Registry at UIUC The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an experimental OAI registry. It collects Identify, ListSets, ListMetadataFormats, and sample records from OAI compliant repositories and makes this information searchable. An RSS feed lists new and modified repositories. To be added to the repository, email Tom Habing.
  • Metalist of Open Access Eprint Archives This list is maintained by Steve Hitchcock. It contains links to lists of open access eprint archives, OAI archives and institutional repositories, plus links to gateways, open access journal archives and subject-discipline repositories. Last updated in June 2003, the author is aware that this list is rather out of date and would welcome updates.

--JulieAllinson 12:32, 28 October 2005 (BST)

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