Apollo: University of Cambridge Repository

摘要

"There are a series of what are sometimes known as 'paradigm shifts', deep discoveries which alter the way we look at the world, from Bacon and Newton to Maxwell and Crick and Watson. It seems that the often lonely, isolated, implausible, somewhat frightening pursuit of the deep mysteries of man and the natural world somehow flourished here", states a work called Creativity in Cambridge (MacFarlane, 2013) found on Apollo, the repository of the University of Cambridge. According to the Registry of Open Access Repositories, there are 3,113 universities with repositories, and according to OpenDOAR, there are about 3,000 institutional repositories. So why "should you know about Apollo, the University of Cambridge's repository? One of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world has a repository which recently reached the landmark figure of 1,000 data sets. In total, 26,000 downloads have been performed in the past year. The famous and the infamous have graduated from Cambridge, which makes exploring their repository promising for any researcher. To name but one example, Professor Stephen William Hawking's works have been viewed 529,717 times. A search for Kim Philby results in 12 theses and one article, all published in the past eight years.