Institutional repositories (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Jones, R. The institutional repository, 2006: p. 1 (institutional repositories within the broader context of digital libraries)

Wikipedia, May 23, 2006 (Institutional repository: An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting and preserving--in digital form--the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. For a university, this would include materials such as research journal articles (before (preprints) and after (postprints) undergoing peer review, and digital versions of theses and dissertations, but it might also include other digital assets generated by normal academic life, such as administrative documents, course notes, or learning objects. IRs are partly linked to the notion of a digital library, i.e., the collection, classification, curation and preservation of digital content, analogous with the library's conventional function of collecting, classifying, curating and preserving analog content.)

Crow, R. The case for institutional repositories, c2002, via WWW, May 23, 2006: exec. summ. (Institutional repositories--digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community)

Drake, M.A. Institutional repositories, 2004, via WWW, May 23, 2006 (Institutional repositories are now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output, and histories of institutions; main purposes of institutional repositories are to bring together and preserve the intellectual output of a laboratory, department, university, or other entity)

D-Lib magazine, Sept. 2005, via WWW, May 23, 2006 (article title: Academic institutional repositories; institutional repositories (IRs); in the countries reporting, the main focus of the holdings of current IRs is on textual material; institutional repositories are becoming well established as campus infrastructure components)