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An '''open-access repository''' or '''open archive''' 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>

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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== Software ==

The most frequently used repository software for [[open access repositories|open-access 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 [[Zenodo]].

==See also==

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* {{cite web |url= https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.repositories |title=(Repositories) |work=[[Open Access Tracking Project]] |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University |quote=News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research |editor=Peter Suber |editor-link=Peter Suber }}

* [https://www.openrepositories.org Open repositories]

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