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<font face="Verdana" size=2>[Forwarding from Michael White and Clare
Allan. --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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With apologies for the unashamed trumpet blowing :-)<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>I am pleased to announce that STORRE:
Stirling Online Research Repository
(<a href="http://storre.stir.ac.uk/">http://storre.stir.ac.uk/</a>), has
recently committed its 1,000 item to the repository.<br><br>
</font><font size=3>The 1,000th item to make it into STORRE was:<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>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<br>
Authors: Quinn, Jim; Sparks, Leigh<br>
ID:
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1187">
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1187</a><br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>The whole STORREy<br>
===============<br>
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.<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>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.<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>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.<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>At the time of writing STORRE
contains:<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>Journal Articles: 588<br>
eTheses: 253<br>
Book Chapters: 55<br>
Conference Papers: 66<br>
Working Papers: 40<br>
Research Reports: 1<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>- we also have around another 70 items
currently being processed in workflow.<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>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 . . . :-)<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>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 :-)<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>Here's to the next 1,000!<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>Regards,<br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2>Michael White, Clare Allan<br>
STORRE Managers<br><br>
</font><font size=1>Michael
White</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1> <br>
eLearning Developer<br>
Centre for eLearning Development (CeLD) <br>
3V3a, Cottrell<br>
University of Stirling <br>
Stirling SCOTLAND <br>
FK9 4LA <br><br>
</font>Email:
michael.white@stir.ac.uk<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=1> <br>
Tel: +44 (0) 1786 466877 <br>
Fax: +44 (0) 1786 466880 <br><br>
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http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/celd/</a><br>
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