Archimer Ifremer’s institutional repository Fred Merceur IAMSLIC's 32nd annual conference Every Continent, Every Ocean October 8-12, 2006 Portland, Oregon, USA

Some general principles... In house development, launched in august It is available at : Includes : Thesis, post-publications, In- press publications, proceedings and Ifremer reports All documents are available in PDF

Some general principles... All documents are loaded by library’s staff To be sure to get the maximum of publications : We check, every week, the publications writen by Ifremer’s staff in the "Current Contents" database, We study, for each of these publications, the self-archiving policy of theirs publishers in the Sherpa/Romeo Web site. If the editor allows the self-archiving of its own pdf files (ex: EDP Sciences, The Company of Biologists…), we download the PDF file from the publishers web-site and we load it into Archimer, If the publishers only allows the self-archiving of the last author’s draft, we contact the authors to ask them for this version using automatic tools developed by Ifremer. If they are able to provide us this version, we produce a PDF file and we load it into Archimer.

Some results... More than 1400 documents are available in Archimer More than 77% of the articles written by Ifremer’s staff (with a Ifremer’s first author) are available for free More than 60% of the articles written by Ifremer (with at least one Ifremer’s author) are available for free

A repository linked to other library’s systems

Some of ours tips to improve documents visibility Some facts: 90% of the documents are downloaded directly from standards web search and especially from Google Document indexed by Google will be downloaded 10 times more than the others

We made sure that the WEB crawlers have a way to find the full text:

We use “Text under image” PDF format when we need to scan a paper copy of a document Image version Text version (automatic OCR)

We try to convince authors to remove protection on PDF files It a end-user want to copy the data, there are several work-around to by-pass the protection It will be more dangerous to copy some data from a document, without citing it, that is really visible on the internet than a document that is not indexed anywhere If the data extraction is protected, the Web crawlers will not be able to index the documents. It may decrease the number of downloads by 10. It may cause problem to change format in several years

We take care of the PDF generated by Latex

We ask authors to provide documents to be loaded in repositeries with a complete notice in english :title, abstract, keywords (a lot),...