The aim of open access journal publishing is making high-
quality, peer-reviewed scholarly content available free on the
web. Find out more... Repositories are intended to complement,
rather then replace, other forms of publication. They can
contain preprints, postprints, and various forms of "gray
literature" (conference papers, datasets, etc.). Thus one may
often publish in a standard, high-impact journal, and yet also
place the article or some form of it in a freely available
public archive. Typically, digital repositories are set up and
maintained by an institution like a university for its scholarly
community, although disciplinary repositories like arXiv.org,
for the physics, mathematics, computer science and quantitative
biology communities also exist. The primary goals of
institutional repositories are: The University of Illinois has
recently launched IDEALS, an institutional repository for the U
of Illinois scholarly community. To find out more about
institutional repositories, see Clifford Lynch's In