Repository Ranking, Jan 2012 by Cybermetrics Lab
Dear All,
The new Jan, 2012 ranking of repository is here
http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.asp?offset=0
This year there are 1239 repositories are in the ranking, from india there are many repositories which are listed…here is small comparative table of selected repositories
| Name of the Repository | Rank (2009) | Rank (Jan, 2010) | Rank
January,2012 |
| Eprint@IISc, Bangalore | 41 | 82 | 98 |
| ISI Digital Library | 76 | 180 | 163 |
| Openmed@nic | 123 | 148 | 190 |
| Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore | 182 | 210 | 469 |
| Raman Research Institute, Digital Repository | 211 | 278 | 499 |
| National Institute of Oceanography, Digital Repository | 243 | 245 | 250 |
| National Aerospace Laboratories | 370 | 316 | |
| IISc Thesis and Dissertation | 483 | ||
| Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute | 321 | ||
| NITR | 458 |
Open Access by the Number
Here is a list of OA by number from OAD (Open Access Directory)
OA journals (Gold OA)
- 7,311. November 28, 2011. The number of peer-reviewed OA journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals(DOAJ).
- 1,728. November 28, 2011. The number of CC-licensed journals in the DOAJ.
- 830. November 28, 2011. The number of SPARC Europe seal journals in the DOAJ. (The SPARC Europe seal requires a CC-BY license.)
- 4.4. November 28, 2011. Average number of new journals added each day in 2010 to the DOAJ.
- 9,651. November 28, 2011. The number of OA journals listed in Open J-Gate.
- 6,502. December 12, 2011. The number of peer-reviewed OA journals listed in Open J-Gate.
- 3,232. December 12, 2011. The number of non-peer-reviewed OA journals listed in Open J-Gate.
- 31,866. November 28, 2011. The number of “free e-journals” (not all peer-reviewed) listed in EZB.
- 20,629. November 28, 2011. The number of “free e-journals” (apparently not all peer-reviewed) listed in the Nottingham Trent University list of Free E-Journals.
- 386. November 28, 2011. Number of institutional members of BioMed Central.
- 145. November 28, 2011. Number of institutional members of the Public Library of Science. PLoS doesn’t provide this number; users have to count the institutions listed.
- 93. November 28, 2011. Number of publishers offering hybrid OA options according to SHERPA. The list doesn’t include a tally and users must count the entries manually.
- 15. November 28, 2011. Number of journal declarations of independence.
- 552 / 638 / 115. February 1, 2012. Number of society publishers / OA journals / Creative Commons licensed according to the second edition of Society Publishers with Open Access Journals, edited by Caroline Sutton and Peter Suber.
OA repositories (Green OA)
- 2,168. February 10, 2012. Number of OA, OAI-compliant repositories listed by OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories).
- 2,700. February 10, 2012. Number of OA, OAI-compliant repositories listed by ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories).
- 3,946. February 10, 2012. Number of OA, OAI-compliant repositories listed by OpenArchive.edu.
- 1,100 / 25,000,000 records. February 10, 2012. Numbers of OA, OAI-compliant contributors / records harvested (indexed and searched) by OAIster.
- 1,269 / 38,354,066 records. February 10, 2012. Numbers of OA, OAI-compliant archives / publications harvested (indexed and searched) by ScientificCommons.org.
- 734,470. February 10, 2012. Number of articles on deposit at arXiv. The number is posted on the upper left corner of the arXiv home page.
- 3,561,421. February 10, 2012. Number of free full-text articles on deposit at PubMed Central. To update this number, search PubMed with a limit to “Links to Free Full Text ” from the Entrez PubMed search box.
- 12,887,344 February 10, 2012. Total number of articles in Entrez PubMed with “Links to Full Text”.
- 12,725 February 10, 2012. Number of full-text items on deposit at E-LIS, the Open Archive for Library and Information Studies
- 1,022,803. February 10, 2012. Number of full-text articles archived at the CERN document server.
- 328,642. February 10, 2012. Number of published articles archived at the CERN document server.
- 624,953. February 10, 2012. Number of preprints archived at the CERN document server.
- 18,014. February 10, 2012. Number of theses archived at the CERN document server.
- 5,627. February 10, 2012. Number of reports archived at the CERN document server.
- 10. March 15, 2005. Average number of minutes it takes to self-archive one article, according to Les Carr and Stevan Harnad, Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving.
OA books
- 36,000. November 29, 2011. Number of OA books in Project Gutenberg.
- 48. November 29, 2011. Number of institutions contributing content to the Open Content Alliance. The OCA doesn’t provide this number; users must count the number of institutions listed.
- 21. November 29, 2011. Number of universities contributing content to the Google Book Search Library Project.
- 60 / 5,315,009. February 7, 2012. Number of HathiTrust partners contributing to the number of books digitized in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
- 77. February 2, 2012. Number of publishers of OA books listed in the OAD. Users must count them manually.
- 17. February 2, 2012. Number of AAUP-member publishers of OA books, according to the Spring 2011 report of the American Association of University Presses.
- 92. January 1, 2004. Percentage of books not generating revenues for their publishers or copyright holders, according to Denise Troll Covey, Librarian for Special Projects at Carnegie Mellon University, as quoted by Daniel Clancy, Engineering Director for the Google Book Search Project, in a talk at Stanford University on July 18, 2005.
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Plagiarism Checking Software
Dear All,
Here is the list of Plagiarism checking software (Free/proprietary)
1. Turnitin (Proprietary software): Turnitin is an Internet-based plagiarism-detection software. This is one of the best proprietary software available in market, it not only use for checking research paper, university and college use for checking the student paper too.
2. Viper (Free software): Viper is another plagiarism checking software, which have already scanned 10 million resources as claimed in there website. the best thing of viper is its free.
3. Plagiarism detector (Free software): is a plagiarism detection software, its fast and reliable plagiarism detection software as mentioned in their website.
4. Plagirisma.Net (Free online checking): can check plagiarism online by simply copy and paste the text in the box.
5. Copyscape (Online Free Plagiarism detecting software)
Springer launches interdisciplinary open access journal SpringerPlus
Springer launches Springerplus, an open access interdisciplinary journal which cover the entire spectrum of scientific research on emerging areas.
Excerpt from the site
“SpringerOpen is Springer’s new suite of open access journals which will cover all disciplines. SpringerOpen journals are fully and immediately open access and will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license. This makes it easy for authors to fully comply with open access mandates and retain copyright. SpringerOpen journals combine open access and our expertise in delivering high-quality and rapid publications, from online submission systems and in-depth peer review to an efficient, author-friendly production process.”
Search all the E-books in one place
Here is one search engine, where you can search all the e-books, please visit the link http://search-ebooks.eu/
About Me
I am Mallikarjun Dora, presently working at Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad as Professional Assistant.Here i am working in Database and ILL section , earlier i was in periodical section, apart from this also involved in repository development with Dspace software.
Prior to this i was in Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode as an internee, I can say i was lucky to in IIMK library to start up my career. Most of the new technologies and trends are in our library filed i learned from there, its provide me alot of confidence and a solid foundation to build up my career. There i had participated in two workshop one is on Dspace Institutional Repository Software and International Workshop on Greenstone Digital Library software. IIMK library is not only a place to learn but a place where you have freedom to do experiment. Another best thing of IIMK is its surrounded with natural beauty , its situated in the top of the hill in rainy time you fell that you are near to the heaven and flowing with the clouds After all Kerala is the God’s own country.
Studying in Sambalpur University is one of my best time in my whole educational career. The University is surrounded by small hilly area out from the city pollution, quiet and peaceful place. Our department has its own beauty mixing with faculty of two generation (Technology and Theory). In my short span of career i have seen a good number of Library Science department all over India, from my observation i can say it is one of the best department in India.
My higher secondary and Graduation from Rajendra College one of the oldest college in orissa, it is 50 km far from village (small village most of the people are farmer).
I love to write poetry and it was in the pick when i were doing my graduation(publish few in the college magazine),listening old hindi songs (mukesh, latha), now its turn to Ghazal.
