Dissertations and Repository Research

The mission of the University of Tampa Institutional Repository (UoTIR) is to collect, preserve and make available the intellectual output of the institution, its members and affiliates.  It serves to promote the University’s scholarship and create an institutional record of academic and other intellectual work. The UoTIR is managed by the Macdonald-Kelce Library. 

An Institutional Repository (IR) is a type of open access archive where digital copies of student and faculty work are collected, indexed, and preserved. A university repository functions as a central location where scholarship is freely accessible to the campus community and/or to the world. Many colleges and universities have some form of digital archive to showcase institutional achievements, founded on the principles of open access (OA) scholarship.

Access​

The UoTIR is managed by The Macdonald-Kelce Library. Search or browse the archive by author, title, department, date, or document type (thesis, photograph, journal, etc.).

There are many benefits of archiving in a university institutional repository!

The UoTIR serves to:

• Preserve the scholarship of The University of Tampa.
• Boost visibility of student and faculty research.
• Build citation counts for faculty to use when seeking tenure or applying for grants.  
• Demonstrate high quality work for undergraduate students to use when applying to graduate school or employment. 
• Fulfill any departmental accreditations. 
• Comply with grant requirements to deposit data or articles in an archive. 
• Increase our institutional reputation.
• Maintain competition with peer universities. 
• Provide free and open access to scholars around the world. 

Open Access publishing provides scholarly literature that is free to read (not behind a pay wall) and often has various re-use rights.

Institutional Repositories function as Open Access archives (also known as self-archiving or green open access), by freely providing access to research on the internet.

Gold Open Access refers to journals which are fully OA, or traditional publishers who offer options for authors to make their work freely available, with or without a fee.