Concept
Research repository
A research repository is an online service that stores, describes and gives access to publications or data so others can find and reuse them.
How it connects
What it is
- Figshare is a kind of Research repository.
- Institutional repository is a kind of Research repository.
- OSF is a kind of Research repository.
- PANGAEA is a kind of Research repository.
- Zenodo is a kind of Research repository.
Related to
- Research repository relates to ANID open access policy. Funded articles go to the agency's repository; data to the agency's, an institutional or a disciplinary repository.
- Research repository relates to COAR. COAR brings repositories and repository networks together to build capacity and align policies.
- Research repository relates to Current research information system (CRIS). Institutions exchange records between their research information system and their repository.
- Research repository relates to Espacio Ciencia. Harvests institutional repositories into a single national discovery point.
- Research repository relates to LA Referencia. A federated network that aggregates records from institutional repositories.
- Research repository relates to Metadata. Repositories describe each deposit with metadata that search services harvest.
- Research repository relates to Open access. Depositing a copy in an open repository is the 'green' route to open access.
- Research repository relates to Open science. Open repositories for publications, data and code are central open science infrastructure.
- Research repository relates to OpenAIRE. Gathers content from institutional and other repositories and links it to funding data.
- Research repository relates to OpenDOAR. A directory of repositories, used to find where to deposit or look for content.
- Research repository relates to re3data. A registry of research data repositories, used to choose where to deposit data.
- Research repository relates to Repository software. Repository software is the program that runs a repository; choosing a platform is an early step in setting one up.
- Research repository relates to Research data management. Data management usually ends with depositing the data in an institutional or disciplinary repository.
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Details
Description
Research repositories keep deposited objects over time and expose descriptive metadata, usually with a persistent identifier for each record. They differ in who runs them (an institution, a discipline, a company) and in what they accept.
Attributes
| url | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_repository |
|---|---|
| identifiers | wikidata: Q7096323 |
| status | active |
| governance | Not applicable |
| prominence | core |
| type | Concept |
| Tags | function: deposit, region: global |
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_repository(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7096323(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12)
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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