Institutional Repositories

Many academic institutions archive their scholarly output. Some include published and unpublished works (grey literature); others include only unpublished. Some include works by students as well as faculty, some only by faculty.

SPARC position paper on Institutional Repositories

Examples of Open Source Software for Managing Institutional Repositories

DPubS
open source system for publishing digital documents

DSpace
open source software for managing digital collections

Eprints
open source software to support author self-archiving

ETD-db
software developed at Virginia Technical Institute; available free of charge to members of the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

Fedora
open source software for managing digital collections

Greenstone
suite of open source software for managing digital collections

OpenDLib
software toolkit that can be used to create a digital library

Examples of Proprietary Software for Managing Institutional Repositories:

Contentdm from DiMeMa Inc.
software available for purchase for managing digital collections

Digital Commons from ProQuest and BePress
software available for purchase for managing digital collections

DigiTools from ExLibris
software for managing digital collections; integrates digital collections with institutional portals and e-learning systems

Examples of Successful Institutional Repositories

Scholars Bank at the University of Oregon (DSpace platform)

University of California e-Scholarship Repository (Berkeley Electronic Press software)

CalTech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) (ETD-db software)