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.