Digital preservation in the context of institutional repositories

Institutional repositories are “digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community” (Crow, 2002). While some repositories focus on particular subject domains, an institutional repository stores and makes accessible the educational, research and associated assets of an institution. Although most of the currently established institutional repositories are ‘e-prints’ repositories providing open access to the research outputs of a university or research institution, the content does not need to be limited to e-prints but could potentially include research data, learning material, image collections and many other different types of content.