[Dspace-general] [EP-tech] Please Register your IRs in ROAR

[Stevan Harnad]

By all means register in both IR Registries (but, en revanche, ROAR  
too has *many* features that OpenDOAR does not yet have...)

On 20-Nov-06, at 8:18 AM, Ian Stuart wrote:

> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>
> Stevan Harnad wrote:
>> *** EPrints technical list - http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/
>> *** EPrints community wiki - http://wiki.eprints.org/
>> Dear EPrints and DSpace (and other IR software) users:
>> In order to give everyone a clear update on progress in the growth  
>> of IRs
>> and in order to encourage others to create IRs,
>> could you please register your IRs in ROAR
>> (Registry of Open Access Repositories)
>> http://roar.eprints.org/
> Does ROAR have a machine-usable API (like OpenDOAR)?
> Can it be queried to find repositories from a particular  
> institution (like OpenDOAR)?
>
> If not, *PLEASE* register with OpenDOAR (too) - it does, and can,  
> and there is a JISC project that does....
>
> -- 
>
> Ian Stuart.
> Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
> EDINA,
> The University of Edinburgh.
>
> http://edina.ac.uk/
>