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Institutional, Disciplinary and Multidisciplinary Repositories

Examples of Successful Institutional Repositories:

Scholars Bank at the University of Oregon (DSpace platform)

University of California e-Scholarship Repository (Berkeley Electronic Press software)

CalTech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) (ETD-db software)

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Examples of Disciplinary Repositories:

ArXiv
A high energy physics e-print server at Cornell, formerly at Los Alamos

BioMed Central
A United Kingdom publisher of over 100 open access journals in biology and medicine

BioOne
a web-based aggregation of research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences

CogPrints
an electronic archive for self-archived papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, and Anthropology that are pertinent to the study of cognition

PubMed Central
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature

Project Euclid "is a user-centered initiative to create an environment for the effective and affordable distribution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional societies, and academic libraries."

RePEc
Research Papers in Economics - a collaborative effort of 100+ volunteers in 44 countries to enhance dissemination of research in economics. A decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components

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Examples of Multidisciplinary Repositories:

JSTOR
Initially conceived as a project to aid in conservation of stack space in libraries, this project helps to provide archived digital access to a wide array of journals in a wide array of disciplines

Project MUSE
Focusing on the arts, humanities and social sciences, Project Muse offers access to over 300 journals from 60 different scholarly publishers

Directory of Open Access Journals
Free full-text access to scholarly journals

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