Vol. 5 No. 2 (2021)
Editorial

Significance of the institutional digital repository in the preservation and dissemination of academic activity

Gerardo Armando Picón
Bio

Published 2021-12-30

Keywords

  • Institutional repository,
  • Open Access Repositories,
  • Digital repository
  • Repositorio institucional,
  • Repositorios de Acceso Abierto,
  • Repositorio digital

How to Cite

Picón, G. A. (2021). Significance of the institutional digital repository in the preservation and dissemination of academic activity. Revista De Investigación Científica Y Tecnológica, 5(2), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.36003/Rev.investig.cient.tecnol.V5N2(2021)Prologo

Abstract

Institutional repositories arise as an initiative to provide better access to scientific knowledge, constituting a digital-based alternative in a type of global infrastructure for academic communication. It is defined as an archive to collect, preserve and disseminate digital copies of the intellectual production of an institution for the promotion and strengthening of scientific academic activity.

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