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{{Short description|Open-access research database}}

An '''open repository''' or '''open-access repository''' is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate [[open access]] such repositories must be [[interoperable]] according to the [[Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting]] (OAI-PMH). [[Search engines]] harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Jacobs | first1 = Neil| title = Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects| publisher = Elsevier| date = 2006| pages = 11| url = https://www.elsevier.com/books/open-access/jacobs/978-1-84334-203-8| isbn = 9781843342038 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/for-authors/data-guidelines#selectarepository |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About – Open Repositories |url=https://www.openrepositories.org/about/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=www.openrepositories.org}}</ref>

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An '''open repository''' or '''open-access repository''' is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate [[open access]] such repositories must be [[interoperable]] according to the [[Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting]] (OAI-PMH). [[Search engines]] harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research.<ref>{{cite book| last1 = Jacobs | first1 = Neil| title = Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects| publisher = Elsevier| date = 2006| pages = 11| url = https://www.elsevier.com/books/open-access/jacobs/978-1-84334-203-8| isbn = 9781843342038 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/for-authors/data-guidelines#selectarepository |title=Open Data, Software and Code Guidelines |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=About – Open Repositories |url=https://www.openrepositories.org/about/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=www.openrepositories.org}}</ref> Data repositories are the cornerstone for FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) data practices and are used expeditiously within the scientific community.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stracke |first1=Konstantin |last2=Evans |first2=Jack |date=22 March 2024 |title="The rise of data repositories in materials chemistry" |journal=Communications Chemistry |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=63 |doi=10.1038/s42004-024-01143-0 |pmid=38519628 |pmc=10959999 |bibcode=2024CmChe...7...63S }}</ref>

Open-access repositories, such as an [[institutional repository]] or [[disciplinary repository]], provide free access to research for users outside the institutional community and are one of the recommended ways to achieve the [[open access]] vision described in the [[Budapest Open Access Initiative]] definition of open access. This is sometimes referred to as the [[self-archiving]] or "green" route to open access.

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* Enabling and encouraging interdisciplinary approaches to research;

* Facilitating the development and sharing of digital teaching materials and aids, and

* Supporting student endeavours, providing access to theses and dissertations and a ___location for the development of e-portfolios.<ref>{{cite web|last=Swan|first=Alma|title=Open Access institutional repositories: A Briefing Paper (2009)|url=http://www.openscholarship.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2009-01/open_access_institutional_repositories.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719163135/http://www.openscholarship.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2009-01/open_access_institutional_repositories.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=19 July 2011|work=Open Scholarship|access-date=24 September 2013}}</ref>

== Software ==

The most frequently used repository software for open repositories according to [[OpenDOAR]] are [[Digital Commons]], [[DSpace]] and [[EPrints]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.opendoar.org/onechart.php?cID=&ctID=&rtID=&clID=&lID=&potID=&rSoftWareName=&search=&groupby=r.rSoftWareName&orderby=Tally%2520DESC&charttype=pie&width=600&height=300&caption=Usage%2520of%2520Open%2520Access%2520Repository%2520Software%2520-%2520Worldwide |title=OpenDOAR Chart - Usage%20of%20Open%20Access%20Repository%20Software%20-%20Worldwide |website=OpenDOAR |access-date=2016-05-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325152831/http://opendoar.org/onechart.php?cID=&ctID=&rtID=&clID=&lID=&potID=&rSoftWareName=&search=&groupby=r.rSoftWareName&orderby=Tally%20DESC&charttype=pie&width=600&height=300&caption=Usage%20of%20Open%20Access%20Repository%20Software%20-%20Worldwide |archive-date=March 25, 2016 }}</ref> Other examples are [[arXiv]], [[bioRxiv]], [[Dryad (repository)|Dryad]], [[Figshare]], [[Center for Open Science|Open Science Framework]], [[Samvera]], [[Ubiquity Repositories]] and [[invenio]] (solution used by [[Zenodo]]).

==See also==

* [[CORE (research service)]]

* [[Current research information system]]

* [[Digital library]]

* [[Digital Assetsasset Repositorymanagement]] – at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt

* [[Library publishing]]

* [[:Category:Open-access archives|Open-access archives]]

* [[:Category:Open access by country|Open access around the world]]

* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]

* [[ROARMAP]]