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For a University , this would include materials such as Research Journal articles,
before ( Preprint s) and after ( Postprint s) undergoing Peer Review , and digital versions of Theses and Dissertation s, but it might also include other Digital Asset s generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects.

The two main objectives for having an institutional repository are:
  • to provide Open Access to institutional research output by Self-archiving it;

  • to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ("grey") literature (e.g., theses or technical reports).


The origin of the notion of an "institutional repository" {Link without Title} are twofold:

:IRs are partly linked to the notion of digital movement.

:IRs are partly linked to the notion of a Digital Library -- i.e., collecting, housing, classifying, cataloguing, curating, preserving, and providing access to Digital content, analogous with the library's conventional function of collecting, housing classifying, curating, preserving and providing access to Analog content.


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