Institutional repositories: Current situation and issues

Abstract

It was only a few years ago when the idea of "Institutional Repositories (IR)" first appeared, but since then many institutions in the world have started to establish JR helped by the development of software, both open source and commercial software. MIT's DSpace, University of California's eScholarship, California Institute of Technology's CODA, and University of Southampton's Soton are good examples. Many of the other IRs are still small in scale and under development. Publishers' recent changes of policy on self-archiving, governments' new policy in U.S. and U.K, and emerging search engine are expected to enhance open access via IR. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]