<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">[Forwarding from Hélène Bosc. --Peter Suber.]<br></font></font><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div class="im"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Calibri">The Ifremer Research Institute launched
its institutional Repository (Archimer) in 2005. </font><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span> </span>In an article (in
French) published in Liinc em Revista, v.4, n.2, setembro 2008, p. 196 -
217 -<span> </span></font><a href="http://www.ibict.br/liinc" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Calibri">http://www.ibict.br/liinc</font></a><font size="3" face="Calibri"> , we compared the development of HAL (the French
centralized archive) and Archimer. Our results showed that Ifremer’s
self-archiving policy resulted in 80% of its research output being made
Open Access (OA) within 3 years of the launching of its
repository. Please see: <a>http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/sic_00340885/fr/</a></font></span></div></div><div><div><div><span style="text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;border-collapse:separate;font:medium Helvetica;white-space:normal;letter-spacing:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div bgcolor="#ffffff">
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><font size="3" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><font size="3" face="Calibri">Now in 2011, Ifremer and its repository
Archimer are once again at the OA forefront in France and probably also
globally. The resourceful way the Archimer team is
systematically taking advantage of OA and its many technical possibilities
is quite remarkable, as described in the following article by</font><font size="3" face="Calibri"> Merceur et al</font><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"> (in
French) :</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">
<span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><font size="3">Merceur Frederic, Le Gall Morgane,
Salaün Annick.<span> </span><em>La
bibliométrie : un nouveau cap pour une archive
institutionnelle </em></font><a><font size="3">http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00031/14253/</font></a></span></div></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><font size="3" face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><font size="3" face="Calibri">Here is the translation of the conclusion section
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<div><i>Archimer today appears to have become essential for measuring the
scientific and technical output and productivity of Ifremer (the French
Institute for Oceanographic Research).</i></div></div>
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<div><i>With the help of Archimer, a large portion of Ifremer's document
output is becoming centralized. This success represents a recognition of
Ifremer's documentation service, which is evolving new functions as some of
its traditional functions are in rapid decline (e.g., paper-based fund
management services, public reading room reception services). Archimer's
success is based particularly on the fact that the new system is providing
benefits for all players at Ifremer:</i></div></div>
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<div><i>-- For Ifremer researchers today, Archimer, with more than 10,000
full-text documents, is a significant information source, particularly for the
internal gray literature. In addition, the detailed usage and uptake
statistics Archimer provides demonstrate to Ifremer researchers why it is in
their interest to continue to deposit their research. </i></div></div>
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<div><i>-- Laboratories and research groups have effective export capabilities
to generate, quickly and simply, bibliographies of their group's work for
integration into activity reports, research evaluation, or posting on the
web.</i></div></div>
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<div><i>-- The management of Ifremer has in Archimer a reliable source of
bibliometric data on the institute's research productivity, accessible at any
time. </i></div></div>
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<div><i>The success of the Archimer project also derives from the fact that it
integrates multiple functions: Using the same tool we manage the preservation,
the showcasing and the bibliometric analysis of Ifremer's scientific and
technical output. Each component contributes to the success of the other
two.</i></div></div></blockquote></font>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><br><br></font><font size="2" face="Arial">Hélène
Bosc</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Open Access to Scientific
Communication</font></div>
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