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Australian University Repositories (Research and Publications)

Neil Godfrey has posted a list with links of Australian universities' open access repositories. It is interesting to see the range of repository software being used. It would also be nice to see such a list for Canadian institutions (it's probably shorter; we're really slow off the mark on this whole open access thing). Via Open Access News. Neil Godfrey, Metalogger, August 6, 2008. [Link] [Tags: , , , ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Australian University Repositories (Research and Publications)

Robert Robertson, August 7, 2008

Hi Stephen,

I'm not going to claim that it's completely authoritative but OpenDOAR's listing of Canadian OA Repositories is a good start for what you're looking for.

Their search for Canada gives 42 repositories with OA content.
Software in use includes: Archimedes, Bepress, Digitool, DSpace (most with 20 users), Eprints,ETd-db, Manitou.

11 of these repositories list that they store 'learning objects' but I know that OpenDOAR would be the first to admit that trying to finding any kind of comprehensive list of repositories managing learning materials (OA or not) is a very different kettle of fish.

Links:
http://www.opendoar.org/find.php?search=&clID=&ctID=&rtID=&cID=40&lID=&rSoftWareName=&submit=Search&format=full&step=1&sort=r.rName&rID=&ctrl=new&p=1
Or
http://tinyurl.com/6xkhqy

ROAR (another registry service lists 46 repositories in Canada) - but may include experimental repositories. It also when possible creates graphs of thier growth over time.

http://roar.eprints.org/?action=home&q=&country=ca&version=&type=&order=name&submit=Filter
Or
http://tinyurl.com/694rz6

Interestingly OpenDOAR lists 9 other repositories that don't show up on the previous Australian list.

kind regards,
John Robertson
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