El repositorio institucional digital de acceso abierto del Instituto Español de Oceanografía

he Spanish law of Science (June 2011) establishes the framework for the promotion of scientific and technical research, with the aim of contributing to the generation, dissemination and transfer of knowledge. That law considers the open access broadcast of researchers publications through the repositories development and establishes systems that allow that repositories to get connected with similar national and international initiatives. Research activities mainly funded by the State will be published, in institutional digital open access repositories, no later than 12 months after the official date of publication. These electronic versions may be used to evaluate researchers. The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (Instituto Español de Oceanografía, IEO) is a public research organization funded in 1914. It is dedicated to the scientific and technical marine research in the fields of fisheries, aquaculture, marine environment and environmental protection. IEO began its digital preservation and dissemination of intellectual production in October 2011, when launched the open access digital institutional repository e-IEO http://www.repositorio.ieo.es/e-ieo/, following 2.0 DRIVER guidelines, the OAI-PMH protocol for transmission and retrieval of metadata (Dublin Core) and using the DSpace open source and Creative Commons licenses. Authors archive their documents with the help of a support person at their IEO Centre, and two managers at Central Services and an external company manage the repository. Major repositories collectors and search engines (OAI, DRIVER, OpenDOAR, ROAR, Google Scholar, Scirus, Recolecta, Open Access, e-ciencia, Hispana and Google) transfer the contents of the repository to the reader on the web space. One and a half years on, the IEO repository has 600 items of which 45% are presentations to working groups; 21% are articles published in journals; 12% are presentations to congresses and 7% are reports of campaigns and research projects. The remaining 15% corresponds to doctoral theses, books and book chapters, dissemination material, technical notes, practical manuals, publications and research support and advice documents. The distribution by communities is: Area of Fisheries, 395; Area of Aquaculture, 117; Area of Marine Environment and Environmental Protection, 52; Support Research, 26 and Press Office, 10. This poster shows repository statistics over the past year and a half, in which the average of visits per item was 227. It also shows the IEO actions to increase the number of items in 2013.