STORRE, the IR at the University of Stirling, recently passed the 1,000 item milestone. The repository's managers attribute the growth to the university's institutional mandate:
STORRE is a full text only repository that has been up and running at the University of Stirling since 2005. We focussed initially on eTheses, with the submission of eTheses to STORRE becoming mandatory in September 2006. ...
In April 2008 the University's ePrint Mandate was announced - this requires all Journal Articles submitted for publication since January 2007 to be deposited in STORRE immediately on acceptance for publication. ...
Since the ePrint Mandate came into force in September 2008, the rate of submissions of items to STORRE has risen dramatically from less than 20 items per month (sometimes much less!) to around 120 items per month. ...
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 5/18/2009 04:44:00 PM.
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.
