"A[n] institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution."
Digital platforms through which research institutions can store, preserve, and make research outputs publicly accessible.
Scholarly Publishing Cycle: Understanding the scholarly publishing workflow and its challenges is crucial to understand why institutional repositories are a crucial solution.
Open Access: Definition and types of Open Access, benefits and challenges, and the role of institutional repositories in providing Open Access.
Institutional Repositories: Definition, types of institutional repositories, and their roles in promoting the research output of an institution.
Metadata: Importance of metadata in making scholarly content discoverable and accessible, along with the standardizations that should be followed.
Copyright and Licensing: Understanding the legal implications of depositing research materials in repositories, along with the options available for copyright and licensing management.
Digital Preservation: Understanding the importance of long-term digital preservation and how institutional repositories can ensure the persistence and accessibility of content over time.
Metrics and Altmetrics: Understanding the impact and usage metrics associated with institutional repositories, along with the emerging trend of Altmetrics.
Repository Software: Overview of different repository software platforms available, along with their features and functionalities.
Data Management: The role of institutional repositories in managing research data and compliance with funder and publisher policies.
Advocacy and Outreach: Development of institutional repository services, along with the promotion and advocacy of scholarly communication and Open Access principles among researchers and stakeholders.
Academic Institutional Repositories: These repositories are managed by academic institutions such as universities, colleges, and research organizations. They store and provide access to research outputs of faculty members, staff, and students.
Governmental Institutional Repositories: These repositories are maintained by government agencies, and they store and provide access to research outputs generated by the government, such as technical reports, datasets, and policy papers.
Subject-Specific Repositories: These repositories store research outputs specifically related to a certain area of study, such as astrophysics, medicine, or sociology.
Cultural Heritage Repositories: These repositories store digitized versions of cultural and historical artifacts, such as paintings, photographs, manuscripts, and other archival items.
Data Repositories: These repositories store datasets generated from research studies in various fields, such as social sciences, environmental studies, and life sciences.
Disciplinary and Professional Societies: Professional Societies are associations of professionals with common interests and goals. These societies pool their resources to create common journals, host conferences, and even have physical office spaces where researchers can collaborate.
Grey Literature Repositories: These repositories store non-published research materials, such as conference presentations, technical reports, patents, and theses.
Corporate/Enterprise Repositories: These repositories are privately owned and managed by corporations and companies, and they store research outputs generated by their employees.
Hybrid Repositories: These repositories contain a mix of different types of scholarly communication documents such as peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, conference papers, datasets, grey literature, and other materials.
Open Access Journals: These repositories are online journals with no barriers to reading, and often waive the fees for publishing in their journal, in order to make research more accessible for all.
National Repositories: These are repositories mandated or funded by governments to provide open access to research output in the country.
Collaborative Repositories: These repositories are managed by different institutions that collaborate to exchange, store and provide access to research outputs.
"Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics."
"Most of these outputs produced by universities are not effectively accessed and shared by researchers and other stakeholders."
"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."
"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.'"
"Materials such as monographs, eprints of academic journal articles, electronic theses and dissertations, datasets, administrative documents, course notes, learning objects, academic posters or conference proceedings."
"Deposit of material in an institutional repository is sometimes mandated by an institution."
"To provide open access to institutional research output, to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research, and to store and preserve other institutional digital assets."
"Unpublished or otherwise easily lost ('grey') literature such as theses, working papers, or technical reports."
"To provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving in an open access repository."
"To increase visibility and collaboration with other academics."
"Other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ('grey') literature such as theses, working papers, or technical reports."
"An institutional repository might also include other digital assets generated by academics, such as academic posters or conference proceedings."
"To increase visibility and collaboration with other academics."
"To provide open access to institutional research output."
"Eprints of academic journal articles—both before (preprints) and after (postprints) undergoing peer review."
"To store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ('grey') literature such as theses, working papers, or technical reports."
"An institutional repository might also include other digital assets generated by academics, such as datasets."
"Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics."
"To store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including administrative documents."