Building a repository infrastructure for Finland

Abstract

Institutional repositories have a fairly long history in Finland. The first repositories were founded more than a decade ago, and currently almost all of the Finnish universities have at least some kind of repository with variable amounts of content.  Last year the Ministry of Education granted funding for a new project which aims to improve the existing national repository infrastructure. In addition to the development of technological infrastructure the project also deals with copyright issues connected with the self-archiving of research articles.