UCD Library - The UCD Digital Library

The UCD Digital Library

The UCD Library supports digital repository services for dissemination of open access publications by university staff as well as for management of digitised cultural heritage resources and data produced or consumed by the UCD community.

In collaboration with UCD Research, there is interoperability between the Library Institutional Repository (IR) and the UCD Research Management System (RMS) providing a single route to update research profiles and deposit individual full text items. The institutional repository is based on DSpace and provides access to full text articles, working papers, reports, and other staff publications. It also provides a means of exporting information to a national open access repository, RIAN, as well as other subject-specific portals. The UCD Digital Library, the successor to the IVRLA project, is a platform for the dissemination of diverse digital content associated with the University. The major cultural heritage collection is the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA); additional information includes geographic, quantitative and qualitative data produced or consumed by the UCD community. The new platform went live in summer 2012.