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The IR on the International Stage

Mary RobinsonSHERPA, University of Nottingham

Embedding Repositories event,University of Lincoln,10th February 2009

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The IR in the International Stage

• Be seen!– Implement OAI-PMH– Registering repositories– Be visible to search engines

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Be Seen!: implement OAI-PMH

• OAI-PMH = Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadatahttp://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

“provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting “

Also see: DRIVER Guidelines

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Be Seen!: registering repositories

• OpenDOAR- http://www.opendoar.org

• ROAR - http://roar.eprints.org/ • Openarchives.org - http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites • Your software community

– e.g DSpace instances http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//DspaceInstances • OAIster - http://www.oaister.org/

• BASE - http://www.base-search.net/

• Intute RS - http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/

*http://www.rsp.ac.uk/usage/

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Be Seen!: be visible to search engines

• Do Not!– Require all visitors to have a username and password – Set a 'robots.txt' file and/or use 'robots' meta tags in HTML headers that

prevent search engine crawling – Restrict access to embargoed and/or other (selected) full texts – Accept poor quality or restrictive PDF files   – Hide your OAI Base URL

• Ensure you have a 'Browse' interface with hyperlinks between pages  

• Avoid awkward URLs - Many harvesters and firewalls will spit out or block: – Numeric URLs - e.g. http://130.226.203.32/ – URLs that use 'https:' instead of 'http:' – URLs that include unusual port numbers e.g. :47231

*http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/ways-to-screw-up.html

See also http://www.rsp.ac.uk/usage/

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A DRIVER’s Guide to European Repositorieshttp://dare.uva.nl/document/93898

Chapter 3: The Population of Repositories

•University Institutional Repository- University of Minho, Portugal

•University school repository & Institutional repository – ECS & University of Southampton, UK

•Central Archive repository – HAL, France

•International Research Organisation repository – CERN

•Subject-specific service drawing from content of institutional repositories- Connecting Africa

•Service which increases quality of repositories – Cream of Science , The Netherlands.

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Thank you