ABSTRACT

The most important definitions that are frequent in the literature relevant to the topic which sees that University-Based institutional repository is a range of services offered by university for its members to manage and transmit digital materials created by the university and working associates. More precisely, they are digital archives for the intellectual production of associate members of academics, scholars, researchers and students in the institution. And these digital archives are available for beneficiaries both within the organization and outside. The basic function of the institutional repository is to capture and store researches and all other types of intellectual production issued by the institution to reserve the intellectual rights and publish it on long-term basis [4].