ARCA

ARCA

Canada

Arca is a collaborative initiative to support the development and implementation of digital repositories at BC post-secondary institutions. Foundational to the creation of the BC Digital Library, Arca is a province-wide network of institutional repositories that: provides access to faculty and student research output across multiple post-secondary institutions via a cross-repository search layer supports the management of institutional digital assets showcases BC as a hub for knowledge creation across Canada and around the world. Arca is built on Islandora, a Canadian-developed open-source platform currently in use at over 100 public and private institutions worldwide. This shared platform provides post-secondary institutions with open-access repositories for research, theses, and any other digital assets they wish to make available to the wider community. Arca is made possible by a partnership between the BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) and Charlottetown, PEI-based software firm discoverygarden. Implementation was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Advanced Education.

Special Collection

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Islandora (7 (http://drupal.org))

https://arcabc.ca/oai2

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