National repository

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A national repository is repository for academic publications by scholars working in a particular country is a (Such repositories can also be organized on a more local basis) These can be intended fas the main repository for all such scholarship, or as a supplement to existing institutional repositories.

  • In the UK, the British Library operates a national repository open to those who have no institutional repository.
  • In the Netherlands, the Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) acts as a central body coordinating the individual institutional repositories of that country's higher education system and research centers.
  • In Australia, there is the

There are also national repositories intend for specific subjects


(The term has also been used to mean a national library,such as the [Finnish Repository Library])