The European Repository Landscape
1/1/2008
Costs: free
Author: Maurtis van der Graaf, Kwame van Eijndhoven
by Maurits van der Graaf (Pleiade, Netherlands) and Kwame van Eijndhoven (SURF, Netherlands)
inventories the present type and level of OAI- compliant repository activities in the EU.
The study shows that in 15 EU countries a sizeable part of the research universities have implemented a digital repository for research output: in seven of these countries it is estimated that more than half of the research universities have done so.
Yet, the study also shows that 5 five EU countries seem to be in a starting phase, and some countries do not appear to have any repository. Next to the issue of basic implementation of the repositories, the number of full- text publications in the existing repositories can be further improved.
Van der Graaf urges universities and decision makers to accelerate current developments since free access to knowledge and research outputs are important drivers for the knowledge society.
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