Article by Malcolm Wolski, Joanna Richardson and Robyn Rebollo, Griffith University, Australia
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries
Article by Yuan Li, University of Syracuse and Meghan Banach, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Now and Into the Future
Editorial by Laurence Lannom, CNRI
In Brief: New "Virtual Research Environment" Recently Launched
In Brief: Think Tank on Digital Library Interoperability
In Brief: RePosit: positing a new kind of repository deposit
In Brief: Scholarly Reading and the Value of Library Resources: A Research Study in the U.K.
In Brief: A New Step toward Digital Library Foundations
JPEG 2000 for Long-term Preservation: JP2 as a Preservation Format
Article by Johan van der Knijff, KB / National Library of the Netherlands
Model-Oriented Scientific Research Reports
Article by Robert Allen, Drexel University
Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections
Article by Malcolm Wolski, Joanna Richardson and Robyn Rebollo, Griffith University, Australia
Institutional Repositories and Digital Preservation: Assessing Current Practices at Research Libraries
Article by Yuan Li, University of Syracuse and Meghan Banach, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Now and Into the Future
Editorial by Laurence Lannom, CNRI
Essential Maintenance
RoMEO (along with JULIET and OpenDOAR) will not be available on Tuesday 12th July for about 1 hour from 09:30am UK time due to essential maintenance of the server.
PMC growth – about 1 free fulltext per minute
As of June 30, 2011 there were 3,369,548 documents available as free full text through PubMedCentral, as compared with 3,285,816 on March 31, 2011, an increase of 83,732 free documents this quarter.
There were a total of 91 days this quarter; at 60 minutes per hour and 24 hours per day, that’s 131,040 hours altogether. 83,732 is .64 of 131,040.
This means that PMC is adding free documents at a rate of 2/3 of a document per minute, or, rounding up, approximately one document per minute. Thanks to the Linked Science Workshop organizers for pointing out this phenomenal growth rate of PMC, hereby supported mathematically; this fact certainly belongs in the Dramatic Growth of Open Access series.
