Institutional repositories have received a positive response from universities, libraries and taxpayers. Universities that contribute to a study find it unfair when required to buy the published reports. Libraries struggle to allocate money from their stringent budgets to buy high-priced journals. Taxpayers realise that the tax money is invested in scientific studies and refuse to pay twice for the same study. An alternative to the problems faced by the three parties is to maintain a repository of the research reports.
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