Globally governments and universities are seeking to increase access to the research they fund and undertake. This research is being made publicly available free of charge in research repositories (part of the Open Access publishing movement).
Increasingly these repositories are a significant resource discovery tool for researchers wanting to see the latest research in their field.
Repositories are as a rule 'harvested' into Internet search engines so that the content can be searched and discovered. Another way to search repositories is to do so directly at the site or to search a group of them concurrently using a meta-search service.
Here are three services that can help you to find repositories of interest and to search some or all of them concurrently:
ARROW - An Australian service based at the National Library of Australia, providing access to the content of a range of Australian university repositories and research organisations (including The University of Notre Dame Australia)
OpenDOAR - A UK based service which provides access to and searching across over 1300 repositories.
Registry of Open Access Repositories - Another UK based service, which provides access to and information about over 1250 repositories.
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