I’ve completed the quarterly ORO report for final quarter of 2014-15.  Highlights include:

Deposits

The last quarter saw a significant increase in the number of deposits to ORO; over 750 items were deposited in the quarter which is one of the highest counts we’ve ever had.

Open Access

Even though the percentage open access fell from the previous quarter we still see an extraordinarily high level of Open Access deposits from both KMi (71%) and IET (62%).

In fact our overall level of 27% of content being fully Open Access compares well with the percentage of Open Access content in similar repositories.  A quick survey of a set of similar repositories gives an average Open Access level of 24 % (based on data from 39 hybrid UK eprint repositories).

PDF of the quarterly report is available here: ORO 2015 Q4 Report