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Open Access – The Situation in Switzerland

e-LISUPV Valencia13.-14. November 2007Josef HergetInstitute for Information Research (SII)University of Applied Sciences, Chur, Switzerland

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How international is E-LIS?Languages of full texts:

2235 Spanish2017 English697 Italian273 German181 Turkish179 Greek170 Portugese155 Catalán117 Serbian

76 Croatian74 Polish65 French51 Chinese37 Indonesian19 Malaysian14 Czech…

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Number of Documents by Swiss Authors

7027531122155Total

212632431English

11Italian

301266123French

185121German

Total20002001200220032004200520062007Language

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Documents by Swiss Authors

26%

43%

1%

30%German

French

Italian

English

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ROAR / Data providers

CERN Document Server (physics)

� Running CDSWare, based in Switzerland and is registered as Research

Institutional or Departmental

� Registered on 2004-01-20

� Cumulative deposits: 82203 total

� Daily deposits in last year: 47 days of 1-9, 21 days of 10-99, 4 days of 100+

� 100% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)

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ETH E-Collection: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

� Running Other softwares (various), based in Switzerland and is registered as

Research Institutional or Departmental

� Registered on 1991-03-21

� Cumulative deposits: 6820 total

� Daily deposits in last year: 58 days of 1-9, 13 days of 10-99, 0 days of 100+

� 70% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)

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Infoscience: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

� Running CDSWare, based in Switzerland and is registered as Research

Institutional or Departmental

� Registered on 2004-12-14

� Cumulative deposits: 54562 total

� Daily deposits in last year: 66 days of 1-9, 51 days of 10-99, 2 days of 100+

� 30% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)

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RERO DOC: Bibliothèque Numérique

� Running CDSWare, based in Switzerland and is registered as Research

Cross-Institutional

� Registered on 2005-03-11

� Cumulative deposits: 2961 total

� Daily deposits in last year: 193 days of 1-9, 23 days of 10-99, 0 days of 100+

� 70% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)

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University of St.Gallen - Alexandria

� Running Other softwares (various), based in Switzerland and is registered as

Research Institutional or Departmental

� Registered on 2004-10-11

� Cumulative deposits: 14457 total

� Daily deposits in last year: 51 days of 1-9, 55 days of 10-99, 2 days of 100+

� 25% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)

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Zurich Open Repository and Archive

� Running Open Repository, based in Switzerland and is registered as

Research Institutional or Departmental

� Registered on 2006-05-08

� Cumulative deposits: 2180 total

� Daily deposits in last year: 87 days of 1-9, 40 days of 10-99, 0 days of 100

� 100% freely accessible fulltext (* estimate)

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Further Developments

� Project Digital Library Switzerland to start January 2008 (3-4 years duration )

� Infodata is a big player in Germany, providing enhanced services, cooperation?

� Further cooperation between german-speaking countries (de, at, ch) necessary, as there is often an integrated community

� OA for primary data is becoming a prominent issue

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Ever changing environment in scholarly publishing …

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Questions?Thank you for your attention.