[BOAI] The numbers - Re: Success of U Liege Mandate Linked to Performance Assessment

[Chris Armbruster]

This is a request for clarification from ORBI & ULg with respect to  
the 40,000 references mentioned on the home page of ORBI and with  
regard to the impact of conjoining the repository with assessment.

I clicked on a random sample of 30 references from 2009 (browsing ORBI  
by issue year and choosing pages from December to August and clicking  
on titles) and obtained the following:
Full text open access: twelve
Request copy: nine
No text associated: nine

Is ORBI / ULg in a position to clarify just how many of the 40000  
references belong to each category?
And what is the rate of full-text open access now, as compared to what  
it was before the repository was conjoined with assessment?

Anyone interested in this topic is invited to study what became of  
ARROW http://www.arrow.edu.au/  once repositories were adopted as  
preferred means of research assessment: http://research.nla.gov.au/
In Australia, the number of  references seems good, but the rate of  
full text open access is rather limited.

Chris Armbruster
http://ssrn.com/author=434782


On 2 Jun 2010, at 00:28, Stevan Harnad wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 21:41:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: myriam.bastin ulg.ac.be Myriam Bastin - Librarian
For: Paul Thirion and the ORBi team

Here's some important news about ORBi, the institutional repository of  
the University of Liège.

See ORBi's homepage: http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/?locale=en

U Liege's Rector, Bernard Rentier, reports that over the past year  
deposits to the U. Liege repository (ORBi) grew from 10 to 40 thousand  
publications, 25 thousand of them full-text. According to ROAR, this  
is the 3rd highest growth rate among the world's thousand identified  
institutional repositories. Viewed 650 thousand times and downloaded  
61 thousand times, these 40 thousand deposits coincide with the first  
year in which ORBi has served as U Liege's sole official means of  
submitting publications for performance review for academic promotion.



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