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Recently, both the idea and reality of institutional digital repositories have received much attention within the academic and scholar communities as good opportunity for scientific research and educational process. In the Computer Sciences Department of the Pacific Oceanological Institute the work has been underway on institutional digital repository in last few years. Being large and multidisciplinary research institution Pacific Oceanological Institute joins efforts of employees of different departments and pool resources to create uniform system for preserving, searching and management documents (manuscripts, articles, reports, book chapters etc.)

The information system and archives of institutional digital repository is build on Unix family driven server named InfoNet with standard www- and ftp-services. The data management system is created by in-house Perl programming. The file structure of the archives is governed by a strict series of rules due to complex structure of archived documents system. There are several large data divisions according to types of documents stored. They are papers of traditional and electronic journals, manuscripts, book chapters, reports, theses, maps, etc. PDF-format of the documents being de-facto commonly accepted format was used as standard for the digital repository.

The main sources of electronic documents in the repository are electronic libraries, web-sites of electronic and traditional publishers, web-sites of universities and academic institutions as well as homepages research scientists and academics. Some of papers were obtained from theirs authors by e-mail or by post. Printed papers published in predigital epoch were scanned and converted to PDF-format as well. The subject matter of the archives is affected by main lines of activities of the institute. Among them there are Earth and environmental sciences, numerical modeling, electronic communications, library and information sciences etc.

Up to date the journals division of the archives has the highest readiness as a more frequently used part of the digital repository. Each journal included in the archives has short description (title, ISSN, publisher, editor, number of issues per year, URL of the journal on the publisher web-site, subject, instructions for authors, etc.). If the institute has access to full-text articles of the journal in an electronic library (for example, on e-library.ru) the URL of the journal content page and available years are inserted in the description page as well. Simple retrieval system makes this part of the repository an electronic reference book on scientific periodicals and academic publishers of the world.

Since thematic collections of published research papers formed the basis of the archives the "Collection" paradigm was used to emphasize article PDF-files from different journals. Now more then 15 collections of the papers are created in the repository covering gas hydrates, ocean and climate modeling, scientometrics and library sciences. Two types of the collections may be created by the users -- the common collection and the private one. Common collections are created to access by whole scientific community, and private collection may be viewed after authorization only. Any article in the collection has comments field in which any remarks may be added to describe some features of the publication. Such annotated collections are a good instrument to deal with a bibliographic/reference list on some academic course of training or scientific research.

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