| A number of academic libraries have created institutional repositories, digital collections capturing, preserving, organizing, and facilitating access to the intellectual output of a single college or university, or system of colleges and/or universities. The idea was not unique to them, but was borrowed from corporations that are research intensive and want to improve retention and access to the scholarly output of their researchers. While academic institutions generally seek to promote access to their repositories by those outside the institution, corporations generally seek to limit access to their own employees and the employees of companies with which they are engaged in collaborative research. |