Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science: Current State of Repositories | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

"The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR),on behalf of the COAR Aligning Repository Networks Committee recently published a report entitled ''Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science'. This report presented an overview of the international repository landscape and was written with a broader audience in mind. Institutional repositories are one of the key routes to Open Access. A typical repository contains a wider range of materials that reflects the intellectual wealth of an institutions' output - these outputs includes published journal articles, articles (pre-prints) accepted for publication (post prints) conference papers, book chapters, books, working papers, doctoral theses , datasets (and etc) results from research projects. Over the last 2 decades, open access repositories have been implemented around the world and are now well represented in all regions. The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) is a directory of academic open access repositories and currently has over 2,600 listings. Another repository directory is the Registry of Open Access Repositories which lists more than 2,500 institutional and cross-institutional repositories ... In the past 5 years, repositories are becoming connected through thematic, national and regional networks - COAR did an interesting study of this development in 2014 ; one of the examples cited in that study was the OpenAIRE project ..."