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One of the reason that the Cambridge number is so high is because they use DSpace for all kinds of content, not just journal articles.
 
Looking through the collections (http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/) there are corporate publications from the Fitzwilliam Museum, archaeological data, videos from lectures on sustainable development, Ph.D. theses on material science, photos from an anniversary party for the chemical engineering department. There are also thousands of photographs from the Scott Polar Institute's digitisation project of historic polar images.
 
Using an IR for this much broader purpose not only preserves a valuable preservation facility for these types of grey literature and rich content, but also engages the university community much more quickly. The function of an IR is much more readily apparent when somebody realises they need to have a home for these types of valuable content.
 
Alastair
 

Alastair Dunning
JISC Digitisation Programme Manager
t: 0203 006 6065

JISC Office (1st Floor)
Brettenham House (South Entrance)
5 Lancaster Place
London WC2E 7EN

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation/
http://availableonline.wordpress.com/


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DSpace@Cambridge 192,000 items!  presumably there is a story behind that amazing figure??
 
Charles
 

Professor Charles Oppenheim
Head
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU

Tel 01509-223065
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
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(Thanks to Peter Suber and Charles Bailey for drawing attention to this item.)

Repository Records Statistics 

Chris Keene 

This website provides data on the number of records in UK Institutional Respositories over time. The data was collected from late summer 2006, and has been collected weekly ever since. Since August 2008 is has collected data for Institutional Repositories worldwide.

The data is from the excellent ROAR based at the University of Southampton (ECS).

Where to start? Have a look at the table below (first link), it shows the number of records in each repository (registered in ROAR) for each week since July 2006. You can reorder the table, download the data (e.g. in to excel) and select individual repositories. Also check out the comparison page, which can be reached by first selectinig an IR on the right and then selecting an IR to compare with. Finally the info page is worth a read for details of what you are actually looking at, and issues with the data and presentation.

Read more: Introduction, details, help and more


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