Registry of Open Access Repositories
Encyclopedia
ROAR is a searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by EPrints
EPrints
EPrints is a free and open source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It shares many of the features commonly seen in Document Management systems, but is primarily used for institutional...

 at University of Southampton
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England, a member of the Russell Group. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed...

 in 2003. To date, over 1500 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered in ROAR.

ROAR's companion database, the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
ROARMAP
The Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies is a searchable international registry charting the growth of Open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed...

 (ROARMAP), is a searchable international registry charting the growth of Open access mandate
Open access mandate
An Open Access Self Archiving Mandate is a policy—adopted by a research institution , a research funder or a government—that requires researchers to make their published, peer-reviewed journal and conference papers open access by depositing their final,...

s adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed
Peer review
Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.

External links

  1. Official site of ROAR
  2. Official site of ROARMAP
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