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°×С½ãÂÛ̳'s international rankings among research-output repositories has been revealed.

The Eprints repository, run by °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Library Services, houses the deposited research outputs of °×С½ãÂÛ̳ researchers. The full text of the °×С½ãÂÛ̳ return to the 2007 Research Assessment Exercise will be deposited there where copyright permissions allow.

Globally, there are two kinds of repositories - those based in universities (institutional repositories) and subject-based repositories. A new world ranking of both types of repositories has been produced by Webometrics. This is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, the largest public research body in Spain.

°×С½ãÂÛ̳'s repository is measured in three rankings:

• °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s global position among university repositories is 57th out of 4,000 repositories listed
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s global position among institutional and subject-based repositories is 75th
• °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s position among European institutional repositories is 6th.

Repositories are good for research and good for the researcher because, as Open Access repositories, they give greater visibility to an individual's research. °×С½ãÂÛ̳ has performed very well to attain such high rankings when its repository is still relatively new. The rankings will be refreshed every six months and it is to be expected that °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s position will rise as more material is added to the Eprints repository.

To find out more, use the links at the top of this article.

Dr Paul Ayris, Director of °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Library Services