Institutional Repository Search
Making it easy to access academic and research content
There is a wealth of academic, educational and research information stored in a wide range of systems throughout the UK. Our aim is to increase the visibility of this information and make it readily accessible to academics, researchers, developers and associated organisations.
Innovative, flexible, personal and contextual
As well as building on the best open-source search technology available such as Lucene, we are also exploring with leading edge search and personalisation technology providers. This is to develop a system that will allow advanced search and innovative access to the information, such as personalised alerts or repurposed content streams into other websites.
Get involved
Join our discussion forums and help to shape this project. Plus, this site will soon be enhanced to include RSS feeds, wikis, blogs and more. Visit the forums
Find out what this means to you
You will be able to discover information through flexible and innovative tools that meet your personal requirements. Rather than simply searching, you could receive personalised alerts that notify you when something new is available in your area of interest, see what information other academics find useful, or join online communities that share your interests. Find out more Ask a question Hide
Our platform will harvest and aggregate a wide range of data and technologies in order to provide a middleware service which you can repurpose into your own web environments. This will make it easier, faster and cheaper for you to respond to the unique needs of your internal customers and stakeholders through customized, personalised access to academic information sources. Find out more Ask a question Hide
This project will make it possible for your content to be used by more people in many different ways. For example your audience could receive personalised alerts, tag content within their Facebook pages or collaborate with similar interest communities. As our technology will be developed with flexibility in mind, you will be able to provide rich, dynamic functionality quickly and cost effectively. Find out more Ask a question Hide
Our search
Search across 103 UK academic eprints repositories including The Depot.
Try our new conceptual search
Enter your query and find the documents most closely matched to your search terms as well as more documents that are related to your search results.
Try our new text mining based search
Makes browsing easy as it finds relevant results by clicking on the most important concepts using text-mining techniques, and groups similar documents conceptually.
