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The indicator used for estimating the  visibility  (impact) of the items deposited in the repositories is the number of external inlinks they received, considering as the targeted URLs those that are using the domain or subdomain of the repository. For example: http://www.teses.usp.br/ * where the asterisk refer to all the webpages and documents independently of their format. Surprisingly a large number of repositories are giving advice for linking not directly to the full text document in the archive, but to metadata page  that frequently was done by other people than the paper authors themselves, and give access to information already available in the final document (title, author, affiliation, source, keywords, …). Moreover this recommended link is based on a permanent URL system, a redirecting service that hides completely the name of the repository and the hosted institution, usually the organization to which are affiliated most of the authors depositing in the repository. Reposit...

The indicator used for estimating the  visibility  (impact) of the items deposited in the repositories is the number of external inlinks they received, considering as the targeted URLs those that are using the domain or subdomain of the repository. For example: http://www.teses.usp.br/ * where the asterisk refer to all the webpages and documents independently of their format. Surprisingly a large number of repositories are giving advice for linking not directly to the full text document in the archive, but to metadata page  that frequently was done by other people than the paper authors themselves, and give access to information already available in the final document (title, author, affiliation, source, keywords, …). Moreover this recommended link is based on a permanent URL system, a redirecting service that hides completely the name of the repository and the hosted institution, usually the organization to which are affiliated most of the authors depositing in the repository. Reposit...

The indicator used for estimating the  visibility  (impact) of the items deposited in the repositories is the number of external inlinks they received, considering as the targeted URLs those that are using the domain or subdomain of the repository. For example: http://www.teses.usp.br/ * where the asterisk refer to all the webpages and documents independently of their format. Surprisingly a large number of repositories are giving advice for linking not directly to the full text document in the archive, but to metadata page  that frequently was done by other people than the paper authors themselves, and give access to information already available in the final document (title, author, affiliation, source, keywords, …). Moreover this recommended link is based on a permanent URL system, a redirecting service that hides completely the name of the repository and the hosted institution, usually the organization to which are affiliated most of the authors depositing in the repository. Reposit...

The indicator used for estimating the  visibility  (impact) of the items deposited in the repositories is the number of external inlinks they received, considering as the targeted URLs those that are using the domain or subdomain of the repository. For example: http://www.teses.usp.br/ * where the asterisk refer to all the webpages and documents independently of their format. Surprisingly a large number of repositories are giving advice for linking not directly to the full text document in the archive, but to metadata page  that frequently was done by other people than the paper authors themselves, and give access to information already available in the final document (title, author, affiliation, source, keywords, …). Moreover this recommended link is based on a permanent URL system, a redirecting service that hides completely the name of the repository and the hosted institution, usually the organization to which are affiliated most of the authors depositing in the repository. Reposit...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...

Suggestions from the Ranking Editors The role of librarians in the Open Access movement has been very important as they are the main designers, promoters and maintainers of institutional repositories. The basic principles behind the current arrangement of repositories are inspired by the librarianship techniques. However, some decisions guided by these principles are probably hampering the universal adoption of the Open Access initiatives (OAI), as they are ignoring the main users of these repositories: scientists, researchers, scholars. We publicly acknowledge the work done by librarians worldwide but we would like to offer some suggestions to improve the impact of the OAI: The institutional repository is a very important asset of the institution as a whole, not only of the library. We recommend the following syntax for the institutional repository web address: http://repository.university.country/ and not http://repository.library.university.country/ Collective catalogues are wel...