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Qatar National Library has launched Manara – Qatar Research Repository, an open platform that captures, preserves and provides access to scholarly research created in the country. It aims to promote global visibility and the discoverability of Qatar’s research across all disciplines. Manara, available at https://manara.qnl.qa/, is managed by the Library, co-funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and powered…

Middlebury College announces the launch of their new Institutional Repository Middlebury College is a liberal arts college and, founded in 1800, was the first operating college in the state of Vermont. When looking for a new institutional repository solution, Middlebury wanted a stable platform that could handle different file types and large file sizes with…

Leeds Beckett University (LBU), in partnership with Figshare, announces the launch of a new institutional repository: The Thesis and Research Data Repository, available at https://figshare.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/. Research at Leeds Beckett is growing, with subjects as diverse as Sport, Health, Built Environment and Arts & Humanities. LBU strives to ensure the impact of the organisation will be of sustainable, social,…

The University of Limerick (UL) announces the launch of a new Figshare-powered Institutional repository. Founded in 1972 as the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick, and a university since 1989, UL is an independent, internationally-focused university with a proud record of innovation in education and excellence in research and scholarship. Having migrated from a DSpace-powered…

Educators who share their successful teaching resources via the Figshare-powered National Teaching Repository (NTR) are having a positive impact on other teachers – and their students – right around the world. At this year’s UNESCO World Higher Education Conference, the National Teaching Repository (NTR) highlighted the value of the online resource not just to educators in the…