Two Icelandic Open Repositories

Abstract

In Iceland there are now two Open Access repositories, Hirslan and Skemman. Skemman is developing into a cooperative project of the universities in Iceland, mostly housing dissertations and theses at the moment, and Hirslan is a subject based repository for medical and health science information and an institutional repository for Landspitali University Hospital. Both repositories use DSpace software, are listed in DOAR and ROAR and are searchable through Google Scholar. The material of both repositories is also linked to records in Gegnir, the union catalogue of Icelandic libraries.