DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

editor — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Martin Feijen, Wolfram Horstmann, Paolo Manghi, Mary Robinson and Rosemary Russell present an outline of the DRIVER Project and its achievements so far in supporting and enhancing digital repository development in Europe.

Introduction: Why DRIVER Is Needed

OpenDOAR [1] lists over 900 Open Access repositories worldwide. Approximately half of them are based in Europe, most of which are institutional repositories. Across Europe many more repositories are being set up and supported by national and regional initiatives such as the Repositories Support Project [2] in the UK and IREL-Open [3] in Ireland.

A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories

editor — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Martin Feijen and Annemiek van der Kuil describe the Cream of Science Project, part of the DARE Programme, which generated a Web site offering open access to almost 25,000 publications by 207 prominent scholars across the Netherlands.

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Cream of Science: The Challenge

One of the key challenges of the DARE Programme [1] is to encourage scholars to deposit digital versions of their research output in a university archive (institutional repository) that, in turn, can make this output accessible on the Internet. With this in view, a project called Cream of Science was initiated in the summer of 2004. One of the prime aims of Cream of Science is to unlock top quality content to the scientific community and make it more easily and digitally accessible.

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DRIVER: Building the Network for Accessing Digital Repositories Across Europe

Introduction: Why DRIVER Is Needed

A Recipe for Cream of Science: Special Content Recruitment for Dutch Institutional Repositories

Results

Cream of Science: The Challenge