A census of research software in 171 academic institutional repositories.

A dataset of metadata for 171 UK academic institutional repositories, including a census of research software contained.

URL
The OAI url

id
CORE Identifier

openDoarId
Open DOAR identifier

name
Name of repository

Russell_member
If the university is a member of the Russell Group of research intensive universities

RSE_group
If an RSE group is present (based on Soc of RSE data)

email
Redacted

uri
Not used

uni_sld
Second level domain (the part of the url between . And .ac.uk

homepageUrl
University website

source
Not used

ris_software
the Research Information System software used

ris_software_enum
Resolve ris_software into similar types (e.g. Eprints 3, EPrints3.3.16 both equal eprints)

metadataFormat
the protocol used for metadata

createdDate
Repository creation date

location
location of university

logo
University logo (resolves in error)

type
Only = Repository for this dataset. Can be = journal etc.

stats
Not used

contains_software_set
Whether the OAI-PMH software set is present in the repository.

Num_sw_records
The response of the OAI-PMH query for software (erroneous as discussed in paper)

Error
The category of error returned by the experiment’s OAI-PMH queries (see paper)

Manual_Num_sw_records
The true amount of software contained in the repository as found by a manual exhaustive search of each university website

Category
Whether the repository (a) contains software; (b) can contain software, but doesn’t yet; (c) has no separate type of research output called software or similar