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Line 1: ~~</noinclude>~~An '''open-access repository''' or '''open archive''' is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate [[open access]] such repositories must be [[interoperable]] according to the [[Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting]] (OAI-PMH). [[Search engines]] harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research.<ref>{{cite book\| last1 = Jacobs \| first1 = Neil\| title = Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects\| publisher = Elsevier\| date = 2006\| pages = 11\| url = https://www.elsevier.com/books/open-access/jacobs/978-1-84334-203-8\| isbn = 9781843342038 }}</ref>▼ ~~<noinclude>{{User:RMCD bot/subject notice\|1=Open-access repository\|2=Talk:List of open access projects#Requested move 3 June 2018 }}~~ ▲</noinclude>An '''open-access repository''' or '''open archive''' is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate [[open access]] such repositories must be [[interoperable]] according to the [[Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting]] (OAI-PMH). [[Search engines]] harvest the content of open access repositories, constructing a database of worldwide, free of charge available research.<ref>{{cite book\| last1 = Jacobs \| first1 = Neil\| title = Open Access: Key Strategic, Technical and Economic Aspects\| publisher = Elsevier\| date = 2006\| pages = 11\| url = https://www.elsevier.com/books/open-access/jacobs/978-1-84334-203-8\| isbn = 9781843342038 }}</ref> As opposed to a simple [[institutional repository]] or [[disciplinary repository]], open-access repositories provide free access to research for users outside the institutional community and are one of the recommended ways to achieve the [[open access]] vision described in the [[Budapest Open Access Initiative]] definition of open access. This is sometimes referred to as the [[self-archiving]] or "green" route to open access.

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