[BOAI] STORRE reaches 1,000! The Mandate effect . .

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from Michael White and Clare Allan.  --Peter Suber.]


With apologies for the unashamed trumpet blowing :-)

I am pleased to announce that STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository 
(<http://storre.stir.ac.uk/>http://storre.stir.ac.uk/), has recently 
committed its 1,000 item to the repository.

The 1,000th item to make it into STORRE was:
Title: Research Frontiers in Wholesale Distribution (Editorial) in The 
International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Special 
Issue: Research Frontiers in Wholesale Distribution, Volume 17, Issue 4, 
pp. 303 - 311
Authors: Quinn, Jim; Sparks, Leigh
ID: <http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1187>http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1187


The whole STORREy
===============
STORRE is a full text only repository that has been up and running at the 
University of Stirling since 2005. We focussed initially on eTheses, with 
the submission of eTheses to STORRE becoming mandatory in September 2006. 
At that time, after a year and a half of operation, STORRE had a grand 
total of 37 items.

In April 2008 the University's ePrint Mandate was announced - this requires 
all Journal Articles submitted for publication since January 2007 to be 
deposited in STORRE immediately on acceptance for publication. By then 
STORRE had reached 206 items; 143 eTheses (as a result of the eTheses 
mandate) and 63 Journal Articles.

Since the ePrint Mandate came into force in September 2008, the rate of 
submissions of items to STORRE has risen dramatically from less than 20 
items per month (sometimes much less!) to around 120 items per month. 
STORRE has also been expanded to accept other refereed works, including 
Book Chapters, Conference Papers, Working Papers, and Research Reports - we 
are also currently considering expanding into non-refereed items.

At the time of writing STORRE contains:

Journal Articles: 588
eTheses:  253
Book Chapters:  55
Conference Papers: 66
Working Papers:  40
Research Reports: 1

- we also have around another 70 items currently being processed in workflow.

Whilst we are aware that we don't yet have 100% compliance with our 
mandate, the key point is that we only managed to get 63 Journal Articles 
over the 3 years prior to the announcement of the mandate, but have got 687 
items (excluding eTheses) in the year since (with the vast majority coming 
in after the mandate came into force in September). So the mandate (and all 
the advocacy!) has definitely had an effect . . . :-)

So, if there is anyone out there who has been running a repository for a 
year and a half which only has 37 items in it, don't give up :-)

Here's to the next 1,000!

Regards,

Michael White, Clare Allan
STORRE Managers

Michael White
eLearning Developer
Centre for eLearning Development (CeLD)
3V3a, Cottrell
University of Stirling
Stirling SCOTLAND
FK9 4LA

Email: michael.white at stir.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466877
Fax: +44 (0) 1786 466880

<http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/celd/>http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/celd/

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