Helena Francke et al. have published "Institutional Repositories as Infrastructures for Long-Term Preservation" in Information Research.
Here's an excerpt:
The study describes the conditions for long-term preservation of the content of the institutional repositories of Swedish higher education institutions based on an investigation of how deposited files are managed with regards to file format and how representatives of the repositories describe the functions of the repositories.
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