Fondren Library participates in various collaborative initiatives providing data content for federated digital collections and appears in international registries.

webometrics ranking: RDSA is now ranking #39 in North America!

Source:  Top 50 repositories in the US and Canada, 2012, For more information about these 2012 rankings (and about the criteria used), please see: http://repositories.webometrics.info/index.html

IR data content provider

Below is a listing of known sites where data from Rice's institutional repository (http://scholarship.rice.edu/) appears.

• (formerly OAIster) WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway (http://oaister.worldcat.org/)
• Texas Heritage Online (http://texasheritageonline.org/)
• Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/riceuniversity)
• TeachingTexas.org (content forthcoming) - Go to Advanced Search page >select pull-down menu for Source > select Rice University - Fondren Library
• IMLS Digital Collections and Content, see Collections at the Rice University
• SHARE Notify (future)

Registries

• Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
• Library Technology Guides (http://www.librarytechnology.org/) - select heading: lib-web-cats (library web sites and catalogs) and search for "Fondren" or go to (http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=761)
• DSpace Registry http://www.duraspace.org/registry/dspace