For some time we have been trying to get more information on public,
active Fedora repositories for inclusion in ROAR (Registry of Open
Access Repositories). At the moment there are around 1000 repositories
in ROAR but only a tiny handful of those are based on Fedora. The same
is also true in OpenDOAR (SHERPA's Directory of Open Access
Repositories).
This may be because many Fedora installations are not repositories per
se, or because they are running in experimental status, or because
they may be intended as intranet-only resources. However, if you are
the manager of a public repository based on Fedora, please could you
register it at ROAR (http://roar.eprints.org/index.php?action=add) and/
or OpenDOAR (http://www.opendoar.org/suggest.php)
Or if you know the manager of a Fedora repository, please pass the
message on!
--
Les Carr
ROAR team
PS If you are the manager of ANY repository, please take the
opportunity now to check that you appear in ROAR / DOAR for maximum
coverage!
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