Repository@USM Universiti Sains Malaysia Institutional Repository (USMIR)

Overview

The Universiti Sains Malaysia Institutional Repository (USMIR), accessible at eprints.usm.my and known as Repository@USM, is the open-access digital repository of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). It stores, preserves, and provides worldwide access to a wide variety of scholarly and institutional materials produced at USM.

History and Background

The repository was established in April 2008 and is powered by the EPrints 3 platform, developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. It was registered in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and is listed in OpenDOAR. Universiti Sains Malaysia itself was founded in 1969 and is Malaysia's second-oldest university, located on Penang Island.

Collections and Holdings

USMIR holds a broad range of academic and administrative content, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, theses and dissertations, examination papers, research reports, and photographs. The repository covers multiple disciplinary areas represented at USM, including sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities, and medicine. USM's library also maintains an oral history collection, with recordings documenting the history of the Minden Barracks campus and its former residents, which is promoted through the institutional repository.

Access and Usage

The repository is publicly accessible at eprints.usm.my without requiring login, though full-text access to some materials (particularly theses) may require a USM account. A separate closed-access repository for theses and exam papers, erepo.usm.my, requires USM credentials. Deposit of materials does not affect the copyright of deposited items and does not prevent authors from publishing elsewhere.