Comment. One of the great virtues of the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is the graph for each repository showing the daily growth in its deposits. RRS takes this a step further and shows weekly deposit totals (in numbers, not graphics), clustered together with the totals for all other repositories from the same country. You pick the country. It not only gives us a useful new tool for monitoring the growth of green OA, but serves as a living example of the usefulness of the reusability of open data --in this case, ROAR's.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2008 11:19:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
