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Taking a Look at Institutional Repositories

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Academic institutions such as the University and College tend to produce academic journal articles and other scholarly works which in the early days published and kept in the library or disseminate to other organization. As the production of this material keeps increasing the needs to have a large storage to keep all the materials became a problem for the institution. This is because some of the institution did not have a very large storage to cater the needs to keep the materials as the institution not only keep materials publish from the institution only but also from another institution. As the technologies revolve, more initiative has been taken to ensure that the scholarly works of an institution can be disseminated to various part of the world in order to share the knowledge. During the early days the information is published using printed method and the time taken to disseminate it is far too long and the cost is also very high. Other than that, it is very hard to preserve printed materials in a big number. As the institution is now using digital format in publishing their scholarly works, the process of disseminating the knowledge become easier and faster. Now days the digitization activity for materials seems to be increasing as people are now more concern about the preservation of printed materials which lead to the needs of a repository to keep and manage those materials.
Today’s institutions are mostly now having their own institutional repository. What is an

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