[eIFLoa] Hardworking Repositories: The Global Picture and congratulations to UPSpace at the University of Pretoria

[Iryna Kuchma]

Leslie Carr, Southampton, United Kingdom, created the global picture of
hardworking repositories (repositories which receive regular daily
deposits):
http://repositoryman.blogspot.com/2009/06/hardworking-repositories-global-picture.html

The global top ten repositories with the number of days in the last year in
which deposits were made (the data is obtained from the Registry of Open
Access Repositories):

ORBi (University of Liege, Belgium) - 311
IR of the University of Groningen (Netherlands) - 301
KAR - Kent Academic Repository (UK) - 286
University of Southampton: School of Electronics and Computer Science (UK) -
271
UBC cIRcle (University of British Columbia, Canada) - 269
LSE Research Online (London School of Economics, UK) - 260
EEMCS EPrints Service (School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Twente, Netherlands) - 260
LUP: Lund University Publications (Sweden) - 259
UPSpace at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) - 257
University of Tilburg (Netherlands) - 256

Some explanations: "There are all sorts of caveats attached to this list!
Firstly, I removed two entries because they were not "institutional" but
"national" in scope. Secondly, I left in two "departmental" repositories
(ECS and EEMCS) because - dammit, if a department can achieve regular
deposits then so should a whole institution! Thirdly, this table depends on
OAI harvested data from ROAR - if there are any problems with the OAI feed
then it will affect the analysis. And perhaps most importantly, this table
does not take into account the types of deposit that were made on the days
in question. They could be research articles, research data, teaching
material, holiday photographs, or bibliographic records sans open access
full text. So for example, the UBC repository is mainly composed of student
theses and dissertations.
As I have said in the last two postings in this blog, this list simply
reflects how much deposit usage the repository is getting on a daily basis
and it deliberately factors out the number of deposits in order to smooth
over the effect of batch imports from external data sources. The emphasis is
on finding a simple metric to highlight embedded usage of a repository
across a whole institution." Posted by Leslie Carr at 11:36

Congratulations to the all repositories listed and especially to the UPSpace
at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) - the ninth hardworking
repository in the world!