WHAT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY?
According to The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper, Institutional Repositories "capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community," and
- Expand access to research
- Reassert control over scholarship by the academy
- Increase competition and reduce the monopoly power of journals
- Brings economic relief and heightened relevance to the institutions and libraries that support them.
- Serve as a tangible indicator of a university's quality
- Demonstrate the scientific, societal and economic relevance of its research activities
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Increase visibility, status and public value