{{short description|Searchable international database}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{TOC right}} {{Infobox organization | full_name = Registry of Open Access Repositories | image = ROAR growth.png | caption = ROAR Growth of open access repositories, 2000-2018 | formation = 2003 | website = http://roar.eprints.org }}
The '''Registry of Open Access Repositories''' ('''ROAR''') is a searchable international database indexing the creation, location and growth of [[open access]] [[institutional repository|institutional repositories]] and their contents. ROAR was created by [[EPrints]] at [[University of Southampton]], UK, in 2003.<ref>Brody, T, Carr, L, Hey, JMN, Brown, A, Hitchcock, S (2007) PRONOM-ROAR: [http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/53/25 Adding Format Profiles to a Repository Registry to Inform Preservation Services] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006231834/http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/53/25 |date=6 October 2016 }}. ''The International Journal of Digital Curation'' 2(2)</ref><ref>McDowell, CS (2007) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdowell/09mcdowell.html Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment in American Academe Since Early 2005]: Repositories by the Numbers D-Lib 13 (9/10)</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Xia |first=J. |year=2011 |title=An anthropological emic-etic perspective on open access practices |journal=Journal of Documentation |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=75–94 |doi=10.1108/00220411111105461 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krishnamurthy |first1=M. |last2=Kemparaju |first2=T. D. |year=2011 |title=Institutional repositories in Indian universities and research institutes |journal=Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=185–198 |doi= 10.1108/00330331111129723}}</ref> It began as the ''Institutional Archives Registry'' and was renamed '' Registry of Open Access Repositories'' in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040626082235/http://archives.eprints.org/ |url=http://archives.eprints.org |archive-date=26 June 2004 |title=Archives.eprints.org |quote=The Institutional Archive Registry tracks the number and size of open-access eprint archives |editor=Tim Brody |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=fos2006>{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180212235633/http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/02/two-eprints-services-renamed.html |url= http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/02/two-eprints-services-renamed.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 February 2018 |title=Open Access News |date=22 February 2006 }}</ref> To date, over 3,000 institutional and cross-institutional repositories have been registered.<ref>{{cite web|title=Browse by Repository Type|url=http://roar.eprints.org/view/type/|website=ROAR|access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref>
As of 2015, ROAR and the UK-based [[Directory of Open Access Repositories]] (OpenDOAR) "are considered the two leading open access [[Web directory|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."<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Patricia H. Dawson |author2= Sharon Q. Yang |year=2016 |title= Institutional Repositories, Open Access and Copyright: What Are the Practices and Implications? |journal= Science & Technology Libraries |volume= 35 |issue= 4 |pages= 279–294 |doi= 10.1080/0194262X.2016.1224994 |s2cid= 63819187 |url= http://eprints.rclis.org/32654/1/IRpaper_postprint_pdf.pdf }}</ref>
==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 mandate]]s and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their [[peer review|peer-reviewed]] research article output by depositing it in an open access [[institutional repository|repository]].
It was created by EPrints at University of Southampton in 2003.<ref>Moskovkin, VM (2008) [http://dspace.bsu.edu.ru/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4853/1/Moskovkin_Institutional%20policies.pdf Institutional policies for open access to the results of scientific research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041227/http://dspace.bsu.edu.ru/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4853/1/Moskovkin_Institutional%20policies.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }} . ''Scientific and Technical Information Processing''. '''35''' (6) 269–273, {{doi|10.3103/S0147688208060075}}</ref><ref>Sale, AHJ (2007) [http://eprints.utas.edu.au/410/ The patchwork mandate] . ''D-Lib Magazine'', '''13''' (1/2). {{ISSN|1082-9873}}</ref><ref>Manikandan, S; N Isai Vani (2010) "[http://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=2010;volume=56;issue=2;spage=154;epage=156;aulast=Manikandan Restricting access to publications from funded research: Ethical issues and solutions.]" ''Journal of Postgraduate Medicine'' '''56'''(2): 154–156</ref><ref>Lyons, Charles; H Austin Booth (2010) "An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management". ''Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship'' '''16'''(2): 1080124 {{doi|10.1080/08963568.2011.554786}}</ref><ref>Hurrell, A. C. (2012) [http://www.bclabrowser.ca/bcla2/index.php/browser/article/view/390/553 Open access policies on scholarly publishing in the university context] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029060652/https://www.bclabrowser.ca/bcla2/index.php/browser/article/view/390/553 |date=29 October 2020 }}. BCLA Browser: Linking the Library Landscape, 4(3).</ref> 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.<ref name=fos2006 /><ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227204605/http://roarmap.eprints.org/ |archive-date=27 December 2014 |url=http://roarmap.eprints.org |title=Roarmap.eprints.org |url-status=dead }}</ref>
ROARMAP mandates are classified in terms of strength and effectiveness<ref>{{cite arXiv | last1=Gargouri | first1=Yassine | last2=Lariviere | first2=Vincent | last3=Gingras | first3=Yves | last4=Brody | first4=Tim | last5=Carr | first5=Les | last6=Harnad | first6=Stevan | title=Testing the Finch Hypothesis on Green OA Mandate Ineffectiveness | date=2012 | class=cs.DL | eprint=1210.8174 }}</ref> in MELIBEA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.accesoabierto.net/politicas/default.php|title=MELIBEA directory and estimator of institutional open-access policies|access-date=2016-11-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223005321/http://www.accesoabierto.net/politicas/default.php|archive-date=2018-02-23|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of October 2015, open-access mandates have been adopted by more than 520 universities and more than 75 research funders worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Browse by Policymaker Type|url=http://roarmap.eprints.org/view/policymaker_type/|website=ROARMAP|access-date=22 October 2015}}</ref> <!-- ==See also== -->
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