Repositories are tools to collect, manage, disseminate, preserve, and redistribute cooperatively the contents of the participating institutions, in open access and assuring interoperability.
Repositories are a key piece of open science and, in particular, of the promotion of open access. They make available to everyone the production (mainly scientific production) of institutions, increasing its visibility and potential audience.
Under the CORA umbrella there are the following repositories, classified by each type of resource: