Digital Repositories
Digital repositories expedite communication among researchers by archiving and providing online access to publications and research materials. Two major types of digital repository are institutional repository and disciplinary repository. Western University's institutional repository is Scholarship@Western.
General Discussions
- Greater Reach for Your Research: Expanding Readership through Digital Repositories
This brochure explains how digital repositories can help researchers disseminate their publicatons. - Institutional Repositories, Tout de Suite
This is a brief introduction to institutional repositories.
Selected Disciplinary Repositories
- AgEcon Search
This is a repository of scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics. - arXiv
arXiv provides free access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, and Statistics. - dLIST (Digital Library of Information Science and Technology)
This is a repository for Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, and Museum Informatics. - E-LIS (E-Prints in Library and Information Science)
E-LIS provides free access to papers in Library and Information Science. - PhilPapers
This is a directory of online articles and books authored by philosophers. - RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
RePEc disseminates working papers, journal articles, book chapters, and software components about Economics. - SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
SSRN facilitates online access to papers published in various subjects in Social Science, Business and Management, and Humanities.
Directories of Digital Repositories
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
OpenDOAR is an online directory of academic open access repositories. - Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
ROAR is a Web-based finding aid for locating open access repositories in different subject areas.
Search Engines for Digital Repositories
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Based at Bielefeld University Library, BASE is a search engine for free online academic resources. - OAIster
This tool provides access to digital scholarly resources that are freely available online. - ROAR: Search Content
This is a search engine for the materials submitted to the digital repositories listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).
