The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation regarding open access and institutional repositories (IRs) in Greece. Design/methodology/approach -- This paper reports on the development of IRs in Greece and ...

Library and Information Centre of Harokopio University (LIC) in 2006 developed the institutional repository ESTIA, emphasizing on the documentation, the publication as well as the administrations’ approval in the context ...

This paper presents Mopseus, a Fedora-commons based digital repository that focuses on preservation. An overview of the general architecture of the system is presented along with some more in-depth details of its semantic ...

Digital repositories are considered essential information tools for scholarly communication. Their acceptability and extensive use by communities and institutions, as well as the users’ commitment in self-archiving, highlight ...

The paper presents the introduction of Open Access movement in the Academic environment, pros and cons of the adoption of OA by Universities and how the European Union is enforcing the use of Open Access. The ways of ...

An overview of GNU EPrints 2. EPrints is free software which creates a web based archive and database of scholarly output and is intended for use by a university or university department. This article contains a description ...

Throughout the world, academic libraries have come to the conclusion that the development of institutional repositories must be one of their major goals. Institutional repositories are the means for libraries to provide ...