The university’s institutional repository is a digital archive that collects, preserves, and provides open access to the results of the university’s intellectual activities, such as scientific articles, dissertations, teaching materials, and other academic papers.
It promotes the dissemination of knowledge, increases the visibility of research and preserves the scientific heritage of the institution for long-term use.
Main functions and Features:
- Centralization and archiving (collects a variety of academic materials in one place for long-term storage)
- Open access (provides free access to scientific papers for the global community, facilitating knowledge exchange)
- Visibility and authority (increases the recognition and authority of the university, as well as the professional visibility of researchers)
- Data preservation (guarantees long-term and reliable preservation of digital resources)
- A variety of materials (may contain scientific articles, dissertations, theses, student papers, textbooks, multimedia and other materials)
- Self-archiving (allows authors to upload their works themselves, ensuring their accessibility)
Examples of materials hosted in the institutional repository:
- Scientific articles and preprints
- Dissertations and abstracts
- Conference materials and slides
- Training and educational materials
- Student papers
- Datasets and multimedia
Objectives of the Library when maintaining the University’s Institutional Repository:
- Creating a content structure and
- Filling the IR content
- Conducting trainings for the academic community of the university on the placement of academic papers in the IR
- Coordination of the placement of works and publications of the academic community of the University in the IR and participation in the placement of some of them