List of Institutional Repositories
An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating, in digital form, the intellectual output of an institution.
This page contains resources which allow for cross-searching of collections of Institutional Repositories. If you know you require information from a specific institution, please consult them directly.
We also recommend registering your repository. There are several places where you can do this. See our repository registration list for more information.
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
BASE
Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations
OAIster
OpenDOAR
Repository66 Map
SPARC Repository Resources
WorldWideScience.org
ALPSP (The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers)
There is an increasing push for institutions to establish their own digital repositories, to capture both the grey literature (theses, working papers, etc.) and the published articles authored within their institution. There has also, in some disciplines, been a long history of archiving papers for peer attention prior to publication. ALPSP includes a list of Projects and Websites for some of these initiatives.
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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
BASE is the multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources at Bielefeld University. It includes more than 25 million records from more than 1.720 repositories worldwide. 3 million records were added in 2010, approx 14.200 records per day.
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Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This site is a resource for graduate students who are writing theses or dissertations, for graduate faculty who want to mentor Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) authors, for graduate deans who want to initiate ETD programs, and for IT administrators at universities. The Guide is designed specifically for academic researchers and their mentors, yet anyone interested in research and e-publishing will enjoy this resource. Published by UNESCO, The Guide is an international, "living" document, written by ETD (electronic thesis and dissertation) scholars throughout the world (see About the Authors). The Guide will be updated regularly based on submissions by ETD authors and NDLTD members.
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OAIster
OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. Access to these digital resources is provided by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). It includes the Institutional Repositories of many universities. Where an Institutional Repository is included in OAIster, it is not listed elsewhere in this directory, so we recommend starting your search with OAIster.
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The Directory of Open Access Resources - OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR aims to provide a comprehensive and authoritative list of academic open access repositories for end-users who wish to find particular archives or who wish to break down repositories by locale, content or other measures. Users can search for repositories by the following regions: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, North America, and South America.
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Repository66 Map
A map displaying the locations of institutional repositories, which can be filtered by country, platform and date of registration. Each entry links to the url of the repository.
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SPARC Repository Resources
A collection of resources may be helpful for those interested in establishing, accessing, or just learning about online repositories, both institutional and disciplinary. SPARCs membership and mandate encourages a focus on developing institutional repositories, so many resources listed here support this direction. Resources supplied here include guides, presentation materials, and handbooks produced by SPARC and other organizations. These provide definitions and developments in the field, and point those interested to the growing number of repositories. There is also a link to Collected Repositories.
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WorldWideScience provides one-stop searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. This enables anyone with Internet access to launch a single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals from 52 countries. Users can search more than 200 million pages of science and technology information not typically accessible through popular search engines. Some of the resources that you will be cross searching via WorldWideScience are DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) (which includes 3,622 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and languages. 1,251 journals are available in full text) and all the journals INASPs JOL programme (African Journals Online, Bangladesh Journals Online, Nepal Journals Online, Philippine Journals Online, Vietnam Journals Online.
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