The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) EPrints repository of research publications is now one of the top ten in the world, according to the official world ranking of institutional repositories.
Southampton ECS EPrints is ranked number 10 in the world, just behind MIT and the combined campuses of the University of California. The University of Southampton's university-wide EPrints repository (excluding ECS) is ranked number 27 and University College London's repository is ranked number 79 - the only three repositories in the UK to rank in the top 100. There are 80 UK institutions in the top 800 institutional repositories. The rankings are based principally on the number of links into the repository from external websites, demonstrating the impact of an institution's research on the rest of the Web.
The aim of the global ranking is to support Open Access initiatives which provide free access to scientific publications in an electronic form. The University of Southampton institution-wide mandate was introduced in 2008. The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton claims to be a world-leader in the technology and design of open access repositories as well as in the design of institutional open access policy.
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