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EURAB 06.049 European Research Advisory Board Final Report:
Scientific Publication: Policy on Open Access. December 2006


Open Access Repository or Archive

• OA repositories or archives provide storage and management of OA scholarly publications.

• OA repositories provide free access to the material contained in them and are also committed to long-term preservation of the material. 

• They contain both metadata (citation details of the publication) and the full text of the publication.

• OA archives can be organized by discipline (e.g. arXir for physics, or CERN Document Server CDS, or by institution (e.g. eScholarship Repository for the University of California). OpenDOAR provides a comprehensive list of OA repositories wich is updated regularly.