Definitions for "Institutional Repository"
A type of digital repository that is designed to collect the work of a particular institution (usually a university), as opposed to a disciplinary repository like ar Xiv. IDEALS is the institutional repository of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "...a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution." Clifford Lynch, " Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age."
a digital collection of a Faculty's scholarly creative output
a digital collection of the creative intellectual output of the college or university community
a centralised database - not a knowledge community