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An Institutional Repository contains one and usually more types of scholarly digital research artefact, including:
Scope typically includes…An IR is a repository of research outputs. An institution may choose to associate selected research data with some research outputs, or may set an outputs-only policy. An institution may operate several discipline-based IRs or one institution-wide repository. It may join with others to operate a community IR. IR content is normally open access, viewable by anyone on the Web.1 It contains electronic copies of research outputs, rather than pointers (links) to copies held elsewhere.2 It contains all an institution’s research outputs; it may contain research outputs of non-aligned scholars (those not based at an institution). It sets rules for supported file formats and standards, such as XHTML, other XML-based standards such as TEI, and PDF. It may support additional specialist formats such as LATEX. It contains all the digital objects associated with a research output, such as image and sound files, as well as the text. It conforms to the Open Archives Initiative Protocols for Metadata Harvesting. Each work has a corresponding metadata record that an external process can harvest.3 It can be searched using any web browser on any operating system. Some documents may be viewed in any web browser; others may require use of special viewer software, such as a PDF reader. It holds an institution’s digital research outputs in perpetuity. Scope typically excludes…An IR is not a repository for digital learning objects.4 It is not limited to the outputs of publicly-funded research, although the initial focus is likely to be on publicly-funded research. It is not limited to the outputs of academic researchers; private scholars and others will also submit their research outputs. It is not a repository for research data-sets, although these may potentially be added as a future stage of work. In keeping with Open Access principles, it usually does not contain documents in proprietary file formats such as doc.5 It is not a discrete, institution-specific undertaking; the full potential is achieved when “the network” enables services spanning multiple repositories, such as discipline portals. 1 although some institutions may choose to deposit materials over which they set and manage access restrictions (↑) 2 although some repositories may contain links to articles in open access online journals (↑) 3 for example, each page of this wiki has an XML record (follow the link and View Source) based on the Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML (↑) 4 although use of common standards can allow eLearning systems to draw on repository content (↑) 5 although the underlying software may support these and some institutions may choose to use them (↑) |
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