What is an Institutional Repository?
An institutional repository (IR) is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of research created by a society, university, or other organization. In other words, an institutional repository is a type of infrastructure or "house" for digital materials.
At the University of Delaware, we use our institutional repository to collect and preserve the scholarly outputs of our faculty, staff, and students.
Learn more about institutional repositories and other open access infrastructures:
- The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper by Raym Crow
- Open access infrastructure by Ina Smith
- CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access by Petr Knoth and Zdenek Zdrahal
About UDSpace
The University of Delaware Institutional Repository, UDSpace, is a digital library system powered by DSpace software to 
collect, preserve, and distribute the intellectual output of University of Delaware faculty, staff, and students in digital formats.
In 2015, the University of Delaware Faculty Senate unanimously passed the Faculty Senate Open Access Resolution (FSOAR), in recognition of the university's commitment to disseminating published research and scholarship as widely as possible. This resolution has made it possible for the University of Delaware Library to preserve faculty publications in UDSpace.
UDSpace consists of University of Delaware original research in digital form, including articles, working papers, technical reports, conference papers, images, data sets, and more.
The institutional repository accepts submissions from University of Delaware faculty, students, and staff, for digital archiving. To learn more about submitting content in UDSpace, please visit here for guidelines and then use our UDSpace Submission form.
Learn more about UDSpace:
- UDSpace - The UDSpace homepage
- UDSpace Information - Policies and other information about UDSpace
- About UDSpace - Brief overview of the institutional repository
- Share Your Work in UDSpace - Submission form for sharing your research openly in UDSpace
- UDSpace Statistics - IRUS-US statistics to track usage for items in UDSpace