Institutional Repository Information

The Institutional Repository at UA Little Rock

What is an Institutional Repository (IR)?

An institutional repository is a digital collection of items produced by or associated with the institution. Often university IRs focus on collecting and sharing scholarship published by faculty and researchers from their institution, but many include student work, institutional documents, and other information of historical and archival value.

Examples include:

Student theses and dissertations
Faculty/researcher/student/staff scholarship/creative work
Peer-reviewed articles
Data sets
Presentations
University publications such as:
newsletters
magazines
newspapers
journals
University institutional archives
Department records
Historical archives and special collections
Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Benefits of an Institutional Repository at UA Little Rock

An UA Little Rock institutional repository creates a centralized location to collect, preserve, and make publicly available the important records and output of the immense amount of work produced across the University.

An institutional repository makes it easy to find, share, and track the usage of faculty, researcher, and student work.

The UA Little Rock Ottenheimer Institutional Repository

Spring Semester 2026, the UA Little Rock Institutional Repository was created. It can be viewed at: [email protected]. Currently the UA Little Rock Repository is accepting submissions. If you would like to submit work to the repository, use the button below.