BURA & repositories
Repositories provide research output dissemination, which is free to users. They are particularly useful for people working in organisations, which have limited subscriptions to journals and conference proceedings. For example, if you want a journal article but the Library doesn't have a subscription to the relevant journal, you might be able to find it in a repository using a search engine. Also repositories have lots of material, which is unavailable in subscription resources, e.g. working papers.
It is convenient to distinguish institutional and subject repositories. An institutional repository contains one organisation's open access research outputs. By contrast, a subject repository contains subject orientated collections of open access e-publications from multiple organisations. Repositories are not financed by subscriptions paid by users.
Brunel University's institutional repository is called BURA (Brunel University Research Archive).
