Infrastructure

OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

Open access repositories are an important part of open access to the scholarly sources. Authors of publications upload or give permission to upload their published articles to open access repositories. These publications usually exist alongside traditionally published articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, etc. Open access repositories do not review publications, but make them accessible and visible worldwide.

Open access repositories can store different types of documents, e.g. peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, books, course learning materials, audio and video recordings, research data, grey literature, preprint or postprint publications, reports, doctoral theses or master’s theses, unpublished conference papers, etc.

Open access public repositories in Lithuania

Institutional repositories

Institutional repositories are usually managed by research institutions to allow the research community to share research results. Single-subject repositories, which host publications in a specific scientific field, are usually managed by members of the scientific community. Publication repositories have always been an alternative way of providing access to scholarly publications when access to the primary source is not available. In the Registry of Open Access Repositories, 11 Lithuanian repositories are registered.

Global repositories of publications

Open access data repositories in Lithuania

There are thousands of data repositories around the world, and most of them are multi-subject ones. Single-subject repositories only store data of specific scientific fields. Sometimes they are called archives or data centres.

Global data repositories