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“Knock Knock! Who’s There?” A Study on Scholarly Repositories’ Availability

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Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2022)

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Abstract

Scholarly repositories are the cornerstone of modern open science, and their availability is vital for enacting its practices. To this end, scholarly registries such as FAIRsharing, re3data, OpenDOAR and ROAR give them presence and visibility across different research communities, disciplines, and applications by assigning an identifier and persisting their profiles with summary metadata. Alas, like any other resource available on the Web, scholarly repositories, be they tailored for literature, software or data, are quite dynamic and can be frequently changed, moved, merged or discontinued. Therefore, their references are prone to link rot over time, and their availability often boils down to whether the homepage URLs indicated in authoritative repository profiles within scholarly registries respond or not.

For this study, we harvested the content of four prominent scholarly registries and resolved over 13 thousand unique repository URLs. By performing a quantitative analysis on such an extensive collection of repositories, this paper aims to provide a global snapshot of their availability, which bewilderingly is far from granted.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    FAIRsharing – https://fairsharing.org.

  2. 2.

    re3data – https://re3data.org.

  3. 3.

    OpenDOAR – https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar.

  4. 4.

    ROAR – http://roar.eprints.org/information.html.

  5. 5.

    http://brage.bibsys.no/hia/ {ks, hig, hiak, politihs, hsf, hive, misjon, hinesna, hvo, hibo, histm, dhh, hint, hibu, bdh}.

  6. 6.

    https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?CCRIS, https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB, https://www.nlm.nih.gov/toxnet/index.html, https://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/, https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/tri.htm, https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/newtoxnet/cpdb.htm.

  7. 7.

    http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/cdm/, http://idahohistory.cdmhost.com/cdm/, http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/collection.php?alias=irw, http://gettysburg.cdmhost.com, http://cdm16378.contentdm.oclc.org, http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/, http://trinity.cdmhost.com/index.php.

  8. 8.

    Selenium WebDriver – https://www.selenium.dev.

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This work was partially funded by the EC H2020 OpenAIRE-Nexus (Grant agreement 101017452).

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    Andrea Mannocci, Miriam Baglioni & Paolo Manghi

  2. OpenAIRE AMKE, Athens, Greece

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Mannocci, A., Baglioni, M., Manghi, P. (2022). “Knock Knock! Who’s There?” A Study on Scholarly Repositories’ Availability. In: Silvello, G., et al. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13541. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_26

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