Outcomes of the USRN Discovery Pilot Project

"The pilot project resulted in significant positive outcomes for the U.S. repository community. In particular, an increase in the discoverability of content in participating repositories. At the beginning of the project, about half of the repositories did not have their OAI-PMH interface properly configured and, therefore, could not be indexed by external discovery systems. After just over a year of the pilot, all but one repositories are now OAI-PMH compliant. This has resulted in a 50% increase in indexed content, with 728,770 new records now publicly accessible. In addition, important support resources were developed through the project that will be made available to the entire USRN community: ● An automated tool by CORE to specifically assess repositories’ compliance with the USRN Desirable Characteristics for Publication Repositories; ● CORE Data Provider’s Guide, which provides comprehensive instructions for repository indexing, is applicable beyond the project; ● USRN Desirable Characteristics Toolkit, a wiki of valuable resources providing guidance on metadata, discoverability, and persistent identifiers...."