Project Summary: Outcomes of the U.S. Repository Network Discovery (USRN) Discovery Pilot

From a USRN E-Mail:

The U.S. Repository Network (USRN), a joint initiative of SPARC and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), just wrapped up its 12-month Discovery Pilot Project to evaluate and improve repository practices at 23 public and private institutions. The project revealed that 15 of the 23 institutions had OAI-PMH harvesting that was either not working or only partially operational. By fixing these issues, the pilot project was able to make 50% more content immediately available through the CORE discovery system. This means nearly 730,000 additional items were able to be shared with scholars, policymakers, students and the general public. This open flow of knowledge can improve policymaking and enable researchers to accelerate their scientific work.

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