An Institutional Repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating -- 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.
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