The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is a searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
institutional repositories and their contents. ROAR was created by
EPrints at
University of Southampton
The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...
, UK, in 2003. It began as the ''Institutional Archives Registry'' and was renamed '' Registry of Open Access Repositories'' in 2006.
To date, over 3,000 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered.
As of 2015, ROAR and the UK-based
Directory of Open Access Repositories
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories is a UK-based website that lists open access repositories (including academic ones). It is searchable by locale, content, and other measures. The service does not require complete repository detail ...
(OpenDOAR) "are considered the two leading open access
directories worldwide. ROAR is the larger directory and allows direct submissions to the directory. OpenDOAR controls submission of materials and is dependent on the discretion of its staff. OpenDOAR requires open access of scholarly publications; whereas ROAR allows other types of materials to be included. ROAR allows filtering by country, type of repository, and sorting by repository name."
ROARMAP
ROAR's companion Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international database of policies. It charts the growth of
open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...
research article output by depositing it in an open access
repository.
It was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003. The ''Institutional Self-Archiving Policy Registry'' became the ''Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies'' in 2006, then the ''Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies'', and then the ''Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies'' around 2014.
ROARMAP mandates are classified in terms of strength and effectiveness in MELIBEA As of October 2015, open-access mandates have been adopted by more than 520 universities and more than 75 research funders worldwide.
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