What is behind the OpenDOAR? New Development and Community Benefits

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

General Track Papers and Panels

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Since its outset in 2005 the Directory of Open Access (OpenDOAR) [1] harvests, holds, distributes and maintains authoritative metadata about open access repositories. OpenDOAR staff have assessed over three thousand open access repositories world wide against a set of criteria to establish their openness making OpenDOAR the leading service of its kind worldwide. Now the technology underlying OpenDOAR is changing to accommodate a distributed, holistic network of services in the repository eco-system. The change will increase accessibility and re-use of OpenDOAR data, prompting innovative development and enabling the establishment of services that improve research workflows. Cottage Labs and the University of Nottingham have collaborated using funding from Jisc [2] to develop a new system architecture, data model and overall approach to the registry which will dramatically change the way the community can interact with it.