An institutional repository is a digital archive where the intellectual production of an institution is gathered, with the aim of preserving and disseminating it, particularly a higher education institution or a research institution.Its main objectives are:

Increase the visibility, accessibility and dissemination of the results of the institution's academic and scientific research activity, which is important for the academic community itself as well as, at an informative level, for society in general.Facilitate management and access to information about the institution's scientific production, through the registration of scientific production in a specific information system.