Hydra offers a core repository solution which can be adapted to meet different needs. It is open source software released under the Apache 2.0 licence, originally developed by the Hydra Project. The Project now has 21 Partners and a wide range of users internationally working together as a community to add to Hydra's capability.
It seems to me that preprint repositories may be quite useful in some circumstances but I have not used them personally. I would therefore love to hear from any info pros in Australia who have used arXiv or RePec or institutional repositories or other repositories for research for their clients, How useful were they? Some of them seem to have quite deep archives but I would have expected preprints to be especially useful for very recent information.
It seems to me that preprint repositories may be quite useful in some circumstances but I have not used them personally. I would therefore love to hear from any info pros in Australia who have used arXiv or RePec or institutional repositories or other repositories for research for their clients, How useful were they? Some of them seem to have quite deep archives but I would have expected preprints to be especially useful for very recent information.
