2012 Census of
Open Access Repositories in Germany
141
SIZE
41%
small
Open Access Repositories1
9%
EPrints
5%
DSpace
28%
Other
75%
OPUS
9%
EPrints
46%
Other
9%
Repositories with
0-1.000 Items
DSpace
1
27%
EPrints
704.121
31k
2
63k
18k
11
8
6k
27
4
54k
4
6k
3
10k
22
117k
78k
HOSTING
38%
of all German Open Access
4
Repositories are hosted
1) For this survey the definition of Open Access Repository includes repositories that
are institutional, cross-institutional or disciplinary providing (in the majority of cases)
full-text open access scientific publications together with descriptive metadata
through a GUI (with search/browse functionality). The repositories are registered with
a functioning and harvestable base URL in at least one of the following registries:
ROAR, OpenDOAR, OAI, DINI and BASE. (Date of survey: 2012-02-14)
96%
40%
of all hosted Open Access
Repositories are running OPUS
36%
Bibliographic
5
Export
Usage
6
Statistics
Checksum
71 %
33 %
42 %
36 %
23 %
11 %
21 %
31 %
53 %
of all 53 hosted Open Access
Repositories offer a German
and English GUI
OPUS
DSpace EPrints
Other
OPUS
DSpace EPrints
Other
OPUS
The smaller a repository, the
more likely it supports
bibliographic export.
The bigger a repository, the
more likely it offers
usage statistics.
45%
RSS Feed
5%
25 %
45 %
78 %
DSpace EPrints
Other
OPUS
DSpace EPrints
0%
The bigger a repository, the
more likely it does not
show a checksum.
In Collaboration
with:
small 34
medium 14
large 5
4) Date of survey: 2012-04-24; Sources were the websites of the hosting
services of the KOBV, HBZ, BSZ and Open Repositories.
74 %
8
11%
Social
Bookmarking 9
60 %
33 %
21 %
31 %
9%
Other
OPUS
DSpace EPrints
Other
OPUS
The bigger a repository, the
more likely it does not support
social bookmarking.
of all Repositories
offer a German and
English GUI
Social
Networks10
31 %
There is no relation between
the size of a repository and its
support of RSS.
54%
11 %
14 %
DSpace EPrints
Other
22 %
The bigger a repository, the
more likely it has integrated
social network functions.
Best Practice
HeiDOK is the only repository offering all six types of
value-added services plus print on demand.
2) Date of survey: 2012-09-14
3) „k“ stands for 1.000; These maps were created using „Locator map Berlin in Germany.svg“
by NordNordWest, Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE
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LANGUAGE
48%
7
46.136
45.268
41.753
32.695
29.480
Number of hosted Open
Access Repositories
VALUE-ADDED SERVICES
24%
1. elib Publikationen des DLR
2. EconStor
3. German Medical Science
4. PUB - Universität Bielefeld
5. ePIC - AWI
4.994
15k
7k
8
TOP 5
2
Average Size of a German
2
Open Access Repository
8k
198k
1
Repositories with
5.000-50.000 Items
Amount of Items in all German
2
Open Access Repositories
1k
30k
5
56%
5%
DSpace
Repositories with
1.000-5.000 Items
60k
28
55%
OPUS
2,3
4
2
22%
OPUS
Amount of Items in
the Bundesländer
3
11
26%
large
11%
Other
The 2012 census of open access repositories
is a snapshot of the current state of open
access repositories in Germany looking at
different aspects such as the size, software,
value-added services, etc.
The charts and best practice examples shall
help stakeholders to improve open access
repositories on different levels in Germany.
Repositories in
Germany
33%
medium
Other value-added services provided by repositories were print
on demand, link to Google Scholar and email to author.
51 %
78 %
42 %
61 %
OPUS
DSpace EPrints
Other
Repositories running the respective
software offering a German and
English GUI
5) Bibliographic export (at least one format, e.g. RIS) is available on item or
collection level.
6) Usage statistics (e.g. downloads, views) are available for unregistered users
on item.
7) Checksums (e.g. MD5, SHA1) of full-text publications are available on item
level.
8) A functioning RSS feed is available on the home or browsing page.
9) Social bookmarking (at least one service, e.g. connotea) is available on item
level.
10) Social networking (at least one service e.g. facebook, twitter or AddThis
button) is available on item level.
Authors: Paul Vierkant, Michaela Voigt, Jens Dupski, Sammy David, Mathias Lösch
Except where otherwise noted, content of this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
2012 Census of
Open Access Repositories in Germany
SOFTWARE
OPUS
77
Repositories
39
Bilingual (Ger/Eng)
Repositories supporting
Bibliographic Export
Usage Statistics
Checksum
RSS Feed
Social Bookmarking
Social Networks
55
18
41
35
46
7
DSpace
9
Repositories
OAN Validator Score Ø 72/100
Bibliographic Export
Usage Statistics
Checksum
RSS Feed
Social Bookmarking
Social Networks
OAN Validator Score Ø 72/100
2
5
2
1
1
0
6
0
0
2
0
1
1
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
13
0
5
0
0
3
0
0
3
2
9
0
1
3
0
6
0
3
1
2
0
2
4
1
1
6
24
2
0
0
10
2
0
0
0
OAN Validator Score Ø 74/100
2
0
0
13
11
9
11
11
5
1
1
0
3
Bibliographic Export
Usage Statistics
Checksum
RSS Feed
Social Bookmarking
Social Networks
1
1
0
4
8
4
1
14
4
5
2
22
Bilingual (Ger/Eng)
Repositories supporting
OAN Validator Score Ø 79/100
1
36
Repositories
8
Bilingual (Ger/Eng)
Repositories supporting
3
1
0
7
3
2
Other
19
Repositories
7
Bilingual (Ger/Eng)
Repositories supporting
Bibliographic Export
Usage Statistics
Checksum
RSS Feed
Social Bookmarking
Social Networks
1
EPrints
2
4
2
1) Date of survey: 2012-09-20; The repositories were validated on the basis of 200 radomly chosen items using the OAN validator, cf. http://oans2.cms.hu-berlin.de/validator/pages/validation_dini.xhtml 2) These
maps were created using „Locator map Berlin in Germany.svg“ by NordNordWest, Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE, URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/legalcode
METADATA FORMATS
99%
4%
30%
3
Simple
Dublin Core
Qualified
Dublin Core
XMetaDiss
43%
13%
66%
XMetaDissPlus
METS
Epicur
LINKED DATA
7%
2%
RDF
ORE
3) Percentage of repositories that de facto offer the respective metadata format via OAI-PMH. The listed metadata formats (“?verb=ListMetadataFormats“) were validated. Only de facto functioning metadata formats were taken into account. Period of survey: 2012-06/07
DINI
Software & OAN Validator
1
Score
DINI certified Repositories
and their Percentage of the
respective Size Category:
8
4 small 7%
16 medium 34%
11 large 30%
52
2
17
5
OPUS
10
8
2
14
11
1
DSpace EPrints
80-100
TOP 5
REGISTRIES
1
Out of a maximum score of
100 these repositories reached
the following scores in the
OAN validator check:
MONARCH
QUCOSA
EconStor
Edoc (HU Berlin)
KLUEDO
70-80
0-70
Other
Repositories registered
in all five Registries
11 small 19%
22 medium 47%
24 large 65%
100
100
100
99
99
94 %
133 108 99 90 79
Ø 40%
BASE
23
2
1
1
3
0
3
2
small
In Collaboration
with:
7
14
medium
large
Institutions being a Member of the Confederation
of Open Access Repositories (COAR): 6
0
3
0
2
0
0
4
0
3
0
4
0
1
0
0
17
2
0
0
1
0
1
0
5
0
0
0
2
2
17
0
4
4
1
Institutions offering an Open Access publication
fund supported by the DFG: 5
1
0
Open- ROAR
DOAR
OAI
Best Practice
0
1
DINI
Coverage of all 141
German Repositories
OPEN ACCESS
Institutions signing the Berlin Declaration on
Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and
4
Humanities:
77 % 70 %
64 % 56 %
3
5
9
small
medium
large
2
1
0
0
2
The Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology with its institutional repository EVA STAR, is the
only institution to be a signatory of the Berlin Declaration,
to have a DFG open access
publication fund and to be a
member of COAR.
1
3
3
11
small
medium
large
Authors: Paul Vierkant, Michaela Voigt, Jens Dupski, Sammy David, Mathias Lösch
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4) Date of survey: 2012-04-27; Signatories according to:
http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/signatoren/
5) Date of survey: 2012-04-26; Institutions according to:
http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/ „searching for Open Access
Publizieren“
6) Date of survey: 2012-04-26; Members according to:
http://www.coar-repositories.org/member-andpartnership/members-and-partners-by-country/