Archimer Ifremer’s institutional repository

Fred MerceurIAMSLIC's 32nd annual conference

Every Continent, Every OceanOctober 8-12, 2006

Portland, Oregon, USA

Some general principles ...

In house development , launched in

august 2005. It is available at : http://

www.ifremer.fr/docelec/

Includes : Thesis, post-publications, In-press publications, proceedings and Ifremer reports

All documents are available in PDF

Some general principles ...

All documents are loaded by library’s staff

To be sure to get the maximum of publications:

We check, every week, the publications writen by Ifremer’s staff in the "Current Contents"  database,

We study, for each of these publications, the self-archiving policy of theirs publishers in the Sherpa/Romeo Web site.

If the editor allows the self-archiving of its own pdf files (ex: EDP Sciences, The Company of Biologists…), we download the PDF file  from the publishers web-site and we load it into Archimer,

If the publishers only allows the self-archiving of the last author’s draft, we contact the authors to ask them for this version using automatic tools developed by Ifremer. If they are able to provide us this version, we produce a PDF file and we load it into Archimer.

Some results ...

More than 1400 documents are available

in Archimer

More than 77% of the 2005-2006 articles written by Ifremer’s staff (with a Ifremer’s first author) are available for free

More than 60% of the 2005-2006 articles written by Ifremer (with at least one Ifremer’s author) are available for free

A repository linked to other library’s systems

Some of ours tips to improve documents visibility

Some facts:90% of the documents are downloaded

directly from standards web search and

especially from Google

Document indexed by Google will be

downloaded 10 times more than the others

We made sure that the WEB crawlers have a way to find the full text:

We use “Text under image” PDF format when we need to scan a paper copy of a document

Image version

Text version (automatic OCR)

We try to convince authors to remove protection on PDF files

It a end-user want to copy the data, there are

several work-around to by-pass the protection

It will be more dangerous to copy some data

from a document, without citing it, that is really

visible on the internet than a document that is

not indexed anywhere

If the data extraction is protected, the Web

crawlers will not be able to index the

documents. It may decrease the number of

downloads by 10.

It may cause problem to change format in

several years

We take care of the PDF generated by Latex

We ask authors to provide documents to be loaded in repositeries with a complete notice in english :title, abstract, keywords (a lot), ...