Institutional, Disciplinary and Multidisciplinary Repositories

PDXScholar 

Portland State University's Digital Repository is designed to make the work of the University's scholars widely available and ensures that these resources are preserved and organized for the future. It provides a centralized, easily navigable platform for accessing the scholarship of faculty and researchers, including working papers, reports, conference presentations, journal articles, dissertations and theses, and other scholarly materials.

The Portland State University Library is committed to the long term accessibility of all items in the Digital Repository. Each item is assigned a persistent URL, and metadata records are maintained in a permanent archive. There are no access restrictions for most content housed within the repository, and all content may be freely accessed by full text search engines. Research and scholarly output included within the Digital Repository has been selected and deposited by faculty, departments, centers, institutes, and programs throughout the University working in conjunction with the Library.

To learn more about the Digital Repository and how to contribute your work, contact Karen Bjork, Digital Initiatives Coordinator at kbjork@pdx.edu

Institutional Repositories in our region

Scholars Bank at the University of Oregon

ScholarsArchive@OSU

ResearchWorks Archive at University of Washington

WSU Research Exchange Repository

University of California e-Scholarship Repository 

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

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

Examples of Multidisciplinary Repositories:

SSRN Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 384,800 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 315,900 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.