National repository

National repository

A national repository is repository for academic publications by scholars working in a particular country. Such repositories can also be organized on a more local basis. These can be intended as the main repository for all such scholarship, or as a supplement to existing institutional repositories.
*In the United Kingdom, the British Library operates a national repository open to those who have no institutional repository.
*In the Netherlands, the Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) acts as a central body coordinating the individual institutional repositories of that country's higher education system and research centers.
*In Australia, there is the

There are also national repositories intend for specific subjects.

The term has also been used to mean a national library, such as the Finnish Repository Library.

External Links

* [http://www.nrl.fi/english/tietoa.htm Finnish Repository Library]


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