▰ Sources. ▱ Sconul. Institutional Repository. Archive of publications by an institution's staff An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.[1] Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics[2] However, most of these outputs produced by universities are not effectively accessed and shared by researchers and other stakeholders[3] As a result Academics should be involved in the implementation and development of an IR project so that they can learn the benefits and purpose of building an IR.
[citation needed] An institutional repository can be viewed as "a set of services that a university offers to members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. Functions[edit] Open-access repositories[edit] Software[edit] Aggregators[edit] Disciplinary Repository. Disciplinary repositories can acquire their content in many ways. Many rely on author or organization submissions, such as SSRN. Others such as CiteSeerX crawl the web for scholar and researcher websites and download publicly available academic papers from those sites. AgEcon, established in 1995,[3] grew as a result of active involvement of academia and societies. A disciplinary repository generally covers one broad based discipline, with contributors from many different institutions supported by a variety of funders; the repositories themselves are likely to be funded from one or more sources within the subject community.[4] Deposit of material in a disciplinary repository is sometimes mandated by research funders.
Disciplinary repositories can also act as stores of data related to a particular subject, allowing documents along with data associated with that work to be stored in the repository. Examples[edit] Agriculture[edit] Anthropology[edit] Architecture and Civil Engineering[edit] ▱ BL. ▱ Senate. ▱ Bodleian. The National Archives. Redbridge i. Barking and Dagenham. Westminster. Barnet. Camden. Idea Store - Tower Hamlets Council. London Libraries Consortium Library Catalogue. M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries. Inform25.ac.
Library: NI & RoI. ▱ Lib Congress. ▱ NLoA. NYPL Digital Collections.