DigitalKoans

OpenDOAR has introduced OpenDOAR Charts, a nifty new service that allows users to create and view charts that summarize data from its database of open access repositories.

Here’s what a selection of the default charts show today. Only double-digit percentage results are discussed.

• Repositories by continent: Europe is the leader with 49% of repositories. North America places second with 33%.
• Repositories by country: In light of the above, it is interesting that the US leads the pack with 29% of repositories. Germany (13%) and the UK follow (11%).
• Repository software: After the 28% of unknown software, EPrints takes the number two slot (21%), followed by DSpace (19%).
• Repository types: By far, institutional repositories are the leader at 79%. Disciplinary repositories follow (13%).
• Content types: ETDs lead (53%), followed by unpublished reports/working papers (48%), preprints/postprints (37%), conference/workshop papers (35%), books/chapters/sections (31%), multimedia/av (20%), postprints only (17%), bibliographic references (16%), special items (15%), and learning objects (13%).

This is a great service; however, I’d suggest that University of Nottingham consider licensing it under a Creative Commons license so that snapshot charts could be freely used (at least for noncommercial purposes).

This entry was posted on Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 10:45 am and is filed under DSpace, Disciplinary Archives, E-Prints, EPrints, Institutional Repositories, Open Access, Scholarly Communication. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.