An institutional repository is a digital archive that collects, preserves, and disseminates scholarly work produced by faculty, researchers, and students. It supports open access and long-term knowledge storage.
A digital archive of scholarly and administrative materials produced by members of an institution.
Free, unrestricted online access to scholarly outputs stored in the repository.
Standardized descriptors used to catalog and organize repository content.
Faculty or students uploading their own work to the repository.
A unique code (e.g., DOI) that ensures long-term citation and retrieval of documents.
A delay imposed before public access to certain materials is allowed.
Repositories now support multimedia, datasets, and integration with research networks. Institutions are aligning them with tenure reviews, grant reporting, and global research visibility.