Fwd: News from ORBi, the institutional repository of the University of Liege

From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:49:43 -0400

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From: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: News from ORBi, the institutional repository of the
University of Liege
To: JISC-REPOSITORIES -- jiscmail.ac.uk


Congratulations indeed to the team at Liege - Open Access is a simple
proposition, but achieving institutional change necessary to bring it
about is hard work!

I have recently been blogging about deposits in repositories; my
latest posting lists the top ten "most active" institutional
repositories in the world, based on the number of days in which
deposits are made over the last year. By co-incidence, this posting
shows that ORBi, the University of Liege repository, is the most
consistently active institutional repository over the last year.

(See http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2009/06/hardworking-repositories-global-picture.html
for the complete list. All data is taken from the Registry of Open
Access Repositories, http://roar.eprints.org/ )

Well done to Myriam Bastin and her team on their hard work supporting
the Institutional Mandate introduced by their rector, Bernard Rentier.

--
Les Carr
PS As the usage of Institutional Repositories starts to increase, it
would be a good time to start trying to measure the percentage of
institutional research output captured by repositories.
On 26 Jun 2009, at 11:01, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Good news from Belgium relative to the evolution of the institutional repository of the University of Liege, ORBi.
>> I send you below useful information.
>> Thanks you very much for your attention.
>>
>> Myriam Bastin
>> Librarian
>> ORBi team
>> orbi_at_misc.ulg.ac.be
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> 26/06/2009
>> 12,000 references in ORBi, the institutional repository of the University
>> of Liège
>> Just six months after its official launch (November 2008), ORBi, the
>> institutional repository of the University of Liège (ULg), has reached
>> 12,000 deposits and gives access to the full texts of almost 9,000
>> publications! These impressive figures are the results of a voluntary Open
>> Access policy at the University of Liège, which has defined the "mandate
>> ULg", ie the obligation for all researchers to deposit in ORBi the
>> references of all scientific publications since 2002 and the full texts of
>> all scientific articles since the same year. Free access to them is
>> conditioned by respect for copyright. This success also reflects the very
>> positive reaction of by researchers regarding this policy and this new way
>> of visibility.
>> At the beginning of June 2009, a study afternoon on the development of
>> ORBi and institutional Open Access mandates was held in presence of Mr Tom
>> Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Technology, Information and Learning
>> Support of the Queensland University of Technology (Australia), first
>> university in the world to have adopted a mandatory deposit policy.
>> Another important step will be reached by the next academic year with ORBi
>> as a unique source of information for academic assessments at the ULg
>> (promotions, allocation of funds...).
>> More information:
>> ORBi - Open Repository and Bibliography (http://orbi.ulg.ac.be)
>> Mr Tom Cochrane's presentation: "The open access mandate at Queensland
>> University of Technology"
>> (http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/files/Conference%20Tom%20Cochrane%20030609.pdf)

Received on Fri Jun 26 2009 - 14:07:39 BST