A disciplinary repository (or subject repository ) is an online archive, often an open-access repository , containing works or data associated with these works of scholars in a particular subject area . Disciplinary repositories can accept work from scholars from any institution. A disciplinary repository shares the roles of collecting, disseminating, and archiving work with other repositories, but is focused on a particular subject area. These collections can include academic and research papers .
7-566: The World Wide Molecular Matrix ( WWMM ) was a proposed electronic repository for unpublished chemical data . First introduced in 2002 by Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues in the chemistry department at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom , WWMM provided a free, easily searchable database for information about thousands of complicated molecules , data that would otherwise remain inaccessible to scientists . Murray-Rust,
14-533: A chemical informatics specialist, has estimated that 80% of the results produced by chemists around the world is never published in scientific journals . Most of this data is not ground-breaking, yet it could conceivably be of use to scientists doing related projects—if they could access it. The WWMM was proposed as a solution to this problem. It would house the results of experiments on over 100,000 molecules in physical chemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry and medicinal chemistry. In other scientific fields,
21-472: The publishing and pseudo-publishing world?" Murray-Rust and his colleagues are also responsible for the development of the Chemical Mark-up Language ( CML ), a variant of XML intended for chemists . Disciplinary repository Disciplinary repositories can acquire their content in many ways. Many rely on author or organization submissions, such as SSRN . Others such as CiteSeerX crawl
28-515: The need for a similar depository to house inaccessible information could be more acute. In a presentation at the " CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications ( OAI4 )", Murray-Rust said that chemistry actually leads other fields in published data. He estimated that the majority of the data in some scientific fields never reaches publication. Although scientific in nature, the WWMM
35-423: The subject community. Deposit of material in a disciplinary repository is sometimes mandated by research funders . Disciplinary repositories can also act as stores of data related to a particular subject, allowing documents along with data associated with that work to be stored in the repository. What was believed to be the first public Workshop on Disciplinary Repositories was held on June 16 and 17, 2011, at
42-452: The web for scholar and researcher websites and download publicly available academic papers from those sites. AgEcon , established in 1995, grew as a result of active involvement of academia and societies. A disciplinary repository generally covers one broad based discipline, with contributors from many different institutions supported by a variety of funders; the repositories themselves are likely to be funded from one or more sources within
49-452: Was part of the broader open archives and open source movements, pushes to make more and more information freely available to any user via the Internet or World Wide Web . In his CERN presentation, Murray-Rust stated that the WWMM was a "response to the expense of [scientific] journals", and he asked the rhetorical question, "Can we win the war to make data open, or will it be absorbed into
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