The Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access (SHERPA) project, part of the JISC Focus on Access to Institutional Resources Programme, has announced that its OpenDOAR directory, now boasts 1000 repository entries from across the globe. The OpenDOAR directory contains an authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories.
Information from OpenDOAR enables the search service to provide a more focused search by selecting repositories that are of direct interest to the user. OpenDOAR can also be used by researchers to check if their institution has a repository. With each of the repositories listed by the OpenDOAR service having been visited by project staff, the gathered information is both accurate and precise, and contains a quality-controlled list of repository features.
Open access to information has grown rapidly as researchers and scholars increasingly put their work on the web for free in repositories. OpenDOAR seeks to create a bridge between the administrators of those repositories and the service providers which harvest them.
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