Open access repository at ICRISAT

1. An interoperable open access institutional repository
for ICRISAT knowledge products
Open Access Repository
July 2012
Overview
ICRISAT’s Open Access
Repository (OAR)
showcases 40 years of
ICRISAT publications
produced by our
researchers and scholars.
The repository holds post-
prints of research papers
published in journals;
conference papers; book
chapters; monographs;
training manuals; annual
reports and other
research documents
produced by the Institute.
Anyone with internet
access can access the
OAR, which provides
free, immediate,
permanent access to
the full text of all the
publications.
Visit: http://oar.icrisat.org
The Innovation
❖❖ The ICRISAT OAR
facilitates online
access to all major
research publications.
❖❖ Users can employ
the OAR to build
searches by choosing
various access points
and search features
within them.
❖❖ Metadata (data
about the data) of
all the documents
in the repository is
harvested by special
academic search
services such as
Bielefeld Academic
Search Engine
(BASE) and OAIster,
and is indexed by
popular search
engines such as
Google and Google
Scholar.
The Impact
❖❖ The contents of
OAR form part of
AGRIS –the global
public domain
agriculture database,
and VOA3R –
the Virtual Open
Access Agriculture
and Aquaculture
Repository.
❖❖ As of July 2012
the repository had
registered more than
90,000 download
counts from more
than 75 countries.
❖❖ The repository has
recorded over 3,500
unique visitors every
month since its launch
on 2 May 2011.
❖❖ About 50% of the
users of the repository
are redirected from
Google, and about
10% are directed from
Google Scholar.
Manager, Information and Library Services, M Madhan, doesn’t have
to open a book anymore. Several thousand ICRISAT publications are
available at desktops through OAR.
No barriers! ICRISAT’s research output is available to all.
The stylistic “Open lock” is a well-chosen logo for the OAR.