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Digital Repositories
The archives that collect, preserve and share scholarly work for the long haul — what they are, how they differ, and why a persistent identifier matters more than a URL.
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6 min readWhat a Digital Repository Actually Is
The plain-language guide to the archives quietly holding the world's research, and what they do.
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4 min readInstitutional vs. Subject Repositories
Two kinds of home for scholarship — a university's own archive versus a field-wide one like arXiv.
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3 min readThe DOI: A Permanent Address for Ideas
Why that short string of characters matters more than the web address it points to.
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4 min readDepositing Your Own Work
How to put a paper, dataset or thesis into a repository — licences, versions and metadata, step by step.