institutional-repository-guide
Access papers from institutional and subject repositories at scale
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill institutional-repository-guide --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Institutional Repository Guide Institutional repositories (IRs) are university-run digital archives that store and provide open access to their researchers' scholarly output — dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, datasets, and technical reports. Subject repositories like arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and RePEc serve similar functions for specific disciplines. Together, they form a distributed network of open scholarship that complements commercial databases. This guide covers how to discover, access, and systematically harvest content from institutional and subject repositories for literature reviews, meta-analyses, and research data collection. ## Repository Landscape ### Types of Repositories ``` Institutional Repositories (IR): - Run by universities to archive their researchers' output - Examples: DSpace, EPrints, Fedora-based systems - Discovery: OpenDOAR directory (v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar) Subject Repositories: - Discipline-specific archives - arXiv (physics, CS, math), bioRxiv, SSRN, RePEc, EarthArXiv Aggregators: - Harvest from many repositories into a single search interface - BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) - CORE (core.ac.uk, 200M+ open access articles)
- Repository Landscape
- Types of Repositories
- Discovering Repositories
- OAI-PMH Harvesting from Repositories
- Key OAI-PMH Verbs
- Major Repository Platforms
- DSpace
- EPrints
- Fedora / Islandora
- Building a Harvesting Pipeline
- Systematic Collection Workflow
- Ethical Considerations
- References
What does the institutional-repository-guide skill do?
Access papers from institutional and subject repositories at scale
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill institutional-repository-guide --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, a repository with 3,244 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.