1. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ The IR on the International Stage Mary Robinson SHERPA, University of Nottingham Embedding Repositories event, University of Lincoln, 10 th February 2009

2. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ d d www.opendoar.org

3. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ The IR in the International Stage Be seen! –Implement OAI-PMH –Registering repositories –Be visible to search engines

4. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ Be Seen!: implement OAI-PMH OAI-PMH = Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting Also see: DRIVER Guidelines http://www.driver-support.eu/managers.html

5. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ Be Seen!: registering repositories OpenDOAR- http://www.opendoar.org ROAR - http://roar.eprints.org/ Openarchives.org - http://www.openarchives.org/Register/BrowseSites Your software community –e.g DSpace instances http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//DspaceInstances OAIster - http://www.oaister.org/ BASE - http://www.base-search.net/ Intute RS - http://www.intute.ac.uk/irs/ *http://www.rsp.ac.uk/usage/

6. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ Be Seen!: be visible to search engines Do Not! –Require all visitors to have a username and password –Set a 'robots.txt' file and/or use 'robots' meta tags in HTML headers that prevent search engine crawling –Restrict access to embargoed and/or other (selected) full texts –Accept poor quality or restrictive PDF files –Hide your OAI Base URL Ensure you have a 'Browse' interface with hyperlinks between pages Avoid awkward URLs - Many harvesters and firewalls will spit out or block: –Numeric URLs - e.g. http://130.226.203.32/ –URLs that use 'https:' instead of 'http:' –URLs that include unusual port numbers e.g. :47231 *http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/ways-to-screw-up.html See also http://www.rsp.ac.uk/usage/

7. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ d d www.opendoar.org

8. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ www.driver-community.eu

9. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

10. http://search.recolecta.driver.research-infrastructures.eu/

11. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ www.driver-community.eu

12. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

14. www.driver-community.eu

15. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

18. . www.driver-community.eu/helpdesk

19. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ www.driver-community.eu

20. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ www.driver-community.eu

21. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/ A DRIVERs Guide to European Repositories http://dare.uva.nl/document/93898 Chapter 3: The Population of Repositories University Institutional Repository- University of Minho, Portugal University school repository & Institutional repository – ECS & University of Southampton, UK Central Archive repository – HAL, France International Research Organisation repository – CERN Subject-specific service drawing from content of institutional repositories- Connecting Africa Service which increases quality of repositories – Cream of Science, The Netherlands.

22. http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/

24. Thank you