The Academic Repository at Saint Mary's College is a place

where the SMC community can showcase, share, and archive

their scholarship, research data, and creative work.

PALNI Institutional Repository Whitepaper: History, Vision, Values

"In its ​2002 position paper​, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) defined an institutional repository as “digital collections capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community." Traditionally, institutional repositories focus on scholarly outputs of faculty and students in the form of journal pre-or post-prints, conference presentations, theses, dissertations, and exemplary student works..."