OAIster Statistics

Our growth can be shown in a number of ways. The most obvious is the number of search hits at this interface, i.e., how many times the "search" button is clicked on the search page. (You can also access the Excel file of these statistics.)

chart of website hits

In addition, we can show how the number of data contributor repositories and the number of records we harvest from these repositories has grown over time. (You can also access the Excel file of these statistics.)

chart of number of repositiores

chart of number of records harvested

The global nature of OAIster is shown in this world map. (We have harvested repositories from those countries highlighted in blue.)

world map of locations harvested

This list shows how many repositories we harvest from each country. (These numbers are as of December 2006.)

Argentina (3), Australia (21), Austria (6), Belgium (9), Brazil (23), Bulgaria (1), Canada (27), Chile (5), China (2), Columbia (2), Croatia (1), Denmark (3), England (63), Estonia (1), Finland (7), France (32), Germany (72), Greece (2), Hong Kong (3), Hungary (3), Iceland (1), India (11), Indonesia (1), Ireland (3), Italy (21), Japan (16), Lithuania (1), Namibia (1), Netherlands (19), New Zealand (3), Northern Ireland (1), Norway (1), Peru (3), Poland (12), Portugal (5), Russia (1), Scotland (13), Serbia (1), Slovenia (1), South Africa (4), Spain (18), Sweden (14), Switzerland (6), Taiwan (2), Turkey (1), United States (272), Venezuela (2), Wales (2), West Indies (1)