Open access repository
An open access repository, or open archive, is a digital platform that holds research output and provide free, immediate and permanent access to research results to anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositories must be interoperable according to the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Search engines harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research.[1]
As oppose to simple institutional repository or disciplinary repository open access repositories provides free access to research to users outside the institutional community are one of the recommended ways to achieve the open access vision described in the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of open access. This is sometimes referred to as the self-archiving or "green" route to open access.
Benefits of open access repositories[edit]
The benefits of open access repositories, as oppose to conventional digital institutional repositories are:
- Opening up outputs of the institution to a worldwide audience;
- Maximizing the visibility and impact of these outputs as a result;
- Showcasing the institution to interested constituencies – prospective staff, prospective students and other stakeholders;
- Collecting and curating digital output;
- Managing and measuring research and teaching activities;
- Providing a workspace for work-in-progress, and for collaborative or large-scale projects;
- Enabling and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to research;
- Facilitating the development and sharing of digital teaching materials and aids, and
- Supporting student endeavours, providing access to theses and dissertations and a location for the development of e-portfolios.[2]
Software[edit]
The most frequently used repository software for open access repositories according to OpenDOAR are Digital Commons, DSpace and EPrints.[3])
See also[edit]
- Digital library
- Digital Assets Repository – at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt
- Current research information system
- List of repositories
- Category:Open-access archives
- Library publishing
- ROARMAP
- COnnecting REpositories (CORE)
References[edit]
- ^ Jacobs, Neil (2006). Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects. Elsevier. p. 11. ISBN 9781843342038.
- ^ Swan, Alma. "Open Access institutional repositories: A Briefing Paper (2009)" (PDF). Open Scholarship. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ "OpenDOAR Chart - Usage%20of%20Open%20Access%20Repository%20Software%20-%20Worldwide". OpenDOAR. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-15.
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