Editing Institutional repository (section)

{{Short description|Archive of publications by an institution's staff}}
{{Other uses of|scholarly repositories|Disciplinary repository}}
An '''institutional repository''' ('''IR''') is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Crow|first=Raym|date=2002|title=The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper|url=https://rc.library.uta.edu/uta-ir/handle/10106/24350|journal=ARL|language=en-US|issue=223|pages=1–4}}</ref> Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published works to increase their visibility and collaboration with other academics.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ukwoma |first1=Scholastica C. |last2=Dike |first2=V. W. |date=2017 |title=Academics' Attitudes toward the Utilization of Institutional Repositories in Nigerian Universities |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pla.2017.0002 |journal=Portal: Libraries and the Academy |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=17–32 |doi=10.1353/pla.2017.0002 |s2cid=64042164 |issn=1530-7131|url-access=subscription }}</ref> However, most of these outputs produced by universities are not effectively accessed and shared by researchers and other stakeholders.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Safdar |first=Muhammad |date=2021-01-01 |title=Students' Perception about Institutional Repository and Impact of Electronic Contents on their Research: A Pakistani Perspective |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/6162 |journal=Library Philosophy and Practice (E-journal)}}</ref> As a result academics should be involved in the implementation and development of an IR project so that they can learn the benefits and purpose of building an IR.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Patowari |first1=Sewali |last2=Barooah |first2=P. |date=2023-05-15 |title=Development of information repository(IR) in academic institutions - a study. |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/7684/?utm_source=digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/7684&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages |journal=Library Philosophy and Practice (E-journal)}}</ref>

An institutional repository has been defined as "a set of services that a university offers to members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lynch|first1=Clifford |title=Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age|url= https://www.cni.org/wp-content/uploads/2003/02/arl-br-226-Lynch-IRs-2003.pdf |publisher=Association of Research Libraries| journal=ARL Bimonthly Report| issue=226 |access-date=3 January 2022| year=2003}}</ref> For a [[university]], this includes materials such as [[monographs]], [[eprint]]s of [[academic journal]] articles—both before ([[preprint]]s) and after ([[postprints]]) undergoing [[peer review]]—as well as electronic [[thesis|theses]] and dissertations ([[wikibooks:ETD Guide/Introduction/What are ETDs|ETDs]]). An institutional repository might also include other [[digital asset]]s generated by academics, such as datasets, administrative documents, course notes, [[learning object]]s, academic posters or [[conference proceedings]]. Deposit of material in an institutional repository is sometimes mandated by an institution.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Harnad|first1=Steve|last2=McGovern|first2=Nancy|date=2009|title=Topic 4: Institutional repository success is dependent upon mandates|url=https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bult.2009.1720350410|journal=Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|language=en|volume=35|issue=4|pages=27–31|doi=10.1002/bult.2009.1720350410|issn=1550-8366|hdl=2027.42/62145|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

Some of the main objectives for having an institutional repository are to provide [[open access]] to institutional research output by [[self-archiving]] in an [[open access repository]], to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research, and to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including less formally published [[grey literature]] such as theses, working papers or technical reports.