Open access repository
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The document summarizes ICRISAT's Open Access Repository (OAR) which makes 40 years of publications from ICRISAT researchers freely available on the internet. The OAR hosts various publication types including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, reports, and manuals. It provides full-text access and has been integrated into broader databases. Since launching in 2011, the OAR has seen over 90,000 downloads from 75+ countries and averages 3,500 unique visitors per month, with around half of users coming from Google and 10% from Google Scholar.
Open access repository
- 1. An interoperable open access institutional repository for ICRISAT knowledge products Open Access Repository July 2012 Overview ICRISAT’s Open Access Repository (OAR) showcases 40 years of ICRISAT publications produced by our researchers and scholars. The repository holds post- prints of research papers published in journals; conference papers; book chapters; monographs; training manuals; annual reports and other research documents produced by the Institute. Anyone with internet access can access the OAR, which provides free, immediate, permanent access to the full text of all the publications. Visit: http://oar.icrisat.org The Innovation ❖❖ The ICRISAT OAR facilitates online access to all major research publications. ❖❖ Users can employ the OAR to build searches by choosing various access points and search features within them. ❖❖ Metadata (data about the data) of all the documents in the repository is harvested by special academic search services such as Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) and OAIster, and is indexed by popular search engines such as Google and Google Scholar. The Impact ❖❖ The contents of OAR form part of AGRIS –the global public domain agriculture database, and VOA3R – the Virtual Open Access Agriculture and Aquaculture Repository. ❖❖ As of July 2012 the repository had registered more than 90,000 download counts from more than 75 countries. ❖❖ The repository has recorded over 3,500 unique visitors every month since its launch on 2 May 2011. ❖❖ About 50% of the users of the repository are redirected from Google, and about 10% are directed from Google Scholar. Manager, Information and Library Services, M Madhan, doesn’t have to open a book anymore. Several thousand ICRISAT publications are available at desktops through OAR. No barriers! ICRISAT’s research output is available to all. The stylistic “Open lock” is a well-chosen logo for the OAR.