Preserving and sharing the knowledge of today with the scholars of tomorrow is a crucial part of any learning institution’s mission. UB’s Digital Repository is a free resource for all UB-affiliated ...

This is a section within Good practices for university open-access policies. Adopting an OA policy is easier than implementing one, and the hardest part of implementing a "green" or repository-based ...

This policy pertains to the materials and aims of the University of Wyoming’s institutional repository, WyoScholar, hereafter referred to as the “repository.” The repository serves to collect, ...

I always find the figures staggering: there were more than 37 million individual journal article downloads from institutional repositories in the UK during 2023. (Of those, 825,885 came from the ...

The European Council’s recommended open, equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing system, free to readers and authors, has been dismissed as unsustainable and ...

It used to be that the record of scientific work was complete when it was all published in journals. For a select few – read "Nobel Prize winners" – your lab notebooks and correspondence were of ...

Institutional Open Access repositories are tools for supporting, disseminating and showcasing the institution's educational and research outputs, as well as an alternative to the high cost of academic ...

Elsevier’s acquisition of Bepress’s institutional repository platform is heralded as a smart move for the publisher, but not all of Bepress’s customers are impressed. The publishing giant Elsevier ...

This publication is concerned with radioactive waste that requires geological disposal. It discusses the partnership arrangements necessary for the development of a multinational repository for ...