OpenDOAR milestone

From the SHERPA blog this morning:

Just glanced at the OpenDOAR live server and I'm pleased to report that we've just passed the 600 manually quality assured repositories listed on the site.  This is great, as only a couple of weeks ago we passed the 500 mark.  Of course what the site doesn't show at this point are the number of sites we've actually discounted from the service.  A lot of the repository targets listed on other repo directory sites are dead ends, empty, non-functional or simply not Open Access repositories.  To date we've evaulated and discounted nearly 180 sites, and the number is rising each day.  In time we'll list these as the service, hopefully, develops.

PS: BTW, the SHERPA Blog is new, only launched on Monday. This is a welcome extension of SHERPA's online presence and service to OA.