Now we are 11. Where now
for ORO?
Chris Biggs
Metadata and Repository Specialist
A brief history of ORO
• 2002 OU Research Repository set up
• 2005 Relaunch as ORO for RAE preparations
• 2007 5,000 items & 1,000 full text; & presented
Publications dataset for RAE 2008 Submission
• 2009 10,000 items
• 2010 5,000 full text
• 2011 Embedded as Library Service
• 2013 25,000 items & 10,000 full text; & will present
Publication dataset for REF 2014
ORO goes live
18/12/06
2/4/07
9/7/07
22/10/07
28/1/08
5/5/08
30/6/08
18/8/08
6/10/08
24/11/08
12/1/09
2/3/09
20/4/09
8/6/09
27/7/09
14/9/09
2/11/09
21/12/09
8/2/10
5/4/10
24/5/10
12/7/10
30/8/10
18/10/10
6/12/10
24/1/11
14/3/11
2/5/11
20/6/11
15/8/11
3/10/11
28/11/11
23/1/12
12/3/12
30/4/12
18/6/12
6/8/12
24/09/2012
12/11/12
31/12/12
18/2/13
8/4/13
27/5/13
15/7/13
2/9/13
ORO weekly deposits
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
1
LSE Research Online
2
ORO
3
Cranfield
4
University of Salford
5
WRAP (Warwick University)
6
NERC
7
Edinburgh Research Archive
8
Lancaster Eprints
9
University of Huddersfield
10
Top UK Repositories by Downloads
(September 2013)
Bournemouth
-
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
90,000
TOP UK
Repositories
by number of
items
(September
2013)
Ranking
Repository
Items
1
UCL Discovery
294116
2
DSpace @ Cambridge
193460
3
ESRC Research Catalogue
180372
4
Manchester eScholar Services
167861
5
Oxford University Research Archive
116230
6
e-Prints Soton
95698
7
Explore Bristol Research
95277
8
Nottingham Trent Institutional Repository
84841
9
University of Glasgow Enlighten
64175
10
University of Aberdeen Library and Historical Collections Digital Resources
51528
11
King's College London Research Portal
50899
12
Queen's University Research Portal
44141
13
Online Research @ Cardiff
41018
14
Lancaster E-Prints
40779
15
LSE Research Online
39238
16
STFC ePublication Archive
37199
17
Bath University Online Publications Store
30245
18
University of Strathclyde Institutional Repository
29656
19
University of East Anglia digital repository
27688
20
Sussex Research Online
27562
21
Central Archive at the University of Reading
26533
22
Kent Academic Repository
26211
23
Newcastle University E-Prints
25527
24
Open Research Online
25202
25
NERC Open Research Archive
24649
26
Leicester Research Archive
24534
27
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Research Online
23935
28
University of Dundee Online Publications
18173
29
Ulster Institutional Repository
17368
30
UWE Research Repository
16916
Site Visits to ORO
16000
14000
No. of visits/week
12000
10000
8000
6000
4000
2000
0
1
3
5
7
2007
9
11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
th
7
UK Repository in RWOR
• Ranking Web of Repositories
http://www.beautifulbodybistro.com/2012/05/01/seals-of-approval/
“a useless excrescence”
• “An institutional repository is a useless excrescence
unless it is part of a systematic, broad-based, well
supported data-stewardship, scholarly-communication,
or digital-preservation program.”
• Salo (2008) Innkeeper at the Roach Motel
(http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/22088)
“a solution in search of a problem”
• “No one wants institutional repositories to be reduced to
a solution in search of a problem; the objective of the
project is to meet the genuine needs manifested in
campus communities”
• Burns, Lana & Budd (2013) Institutional Repositories:
Exploration of Costs and Value (10.1045/january2013burns)
http://hilarious-consequences.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/existential-crisis.html
Metadata and/or Full text
http://www.marymaryquitecontrary.org.uk/archives/2637
Open Access
Coverage – what?
http://mbtimetraveler.com/tag/stamp-collection/
Coverage – who?
http://farina-group.co.uk/call-centre-design-people-people-people/
Who does the work?
http://construction.practicallaw.com/blog/construction/plc/?p=66
Subject repositories
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-501669/Revealed-Britains-terrifying-road-junction.html
Preservation
•
http://winnebago.uwex.edu/family-living/food-preservation-and-safety/
HEFCE
“Meet the genuine needs
manifested in campus
communities”
• Researchers want a platform to put research
publications and data and scholarship.
• The institution needs to know what it is publishing.
Library Services
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
www.open.ac.uk