Others such as CiteSeerX crawl the web for scholar and researcher websites and download publicly available academic papers from those sites.
AgEcon, established in 1995,[3] grew as a result of active involvement of academia and societies.
What was believed to be the first public Workshop on Disciplinary Repositories[5] was held on June 16 and 17, 2011, at the ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Beyond the core functions of collecting, disseminating, and archiving scholarly works, disciplinary repositories offer significant benefits to the overall academic ecosystem.
Here is a closer look at their contributions: In conclusion, disciplinary repositories play a vital role in promoting research, scholarship, and knowledge development across academic disciplines.