Mostly Educational Institution uses an institutional repository which is an online place for collecting, circulating and conserving in digital form, the cerebral output of an institution.
Peer reviews, journal articles and digital versions of theses and dissertations features are included for Universities & Colleges. Administrative documents, learning objects and course notes are the digital assets generated by normal academic life might be also include in institutional repository.
It is open to the public as it is published online. General search engines like Google cannot retrieve academic journal articles which are only available to the subscribers. With the general search engines, the research papers in the institutional repository are fully accessible for free to the public.