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This report describes the growth of institutional repositories in Japan and NII’s support projects since 2004. The characteristic features of the process were: (1) the diversity of the partner universities (2) the collaboration between universities and NII, and (3) the fast localization and installation with limited budget.
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Murakami, Y., Adachi, J. (2006). Institutional Repositories in Japan. In: Sugimoto, S., Hunter, J., Rauber, A., Morishima, A. (eds) Digital Libraries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities. ICADL 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4312. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11931584_71
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