Libra Scholarly Repository
Libra is the University of Virginia's scholarly repository. Libra makes UVA scholarship available to the world and provides safe and secure storage for the scholarly output of the UVA community. Libra is an Open Access repository, meaning that anyone can search, view, and download content. Libra offers ORCID iDs to connect scholarship to the investigator via a persistent digital identifier, in addition to name. LibraOpen supports a broad range of deposit types including posters. Libra for Electronic Theses/Dissertations (LibraETD) provides safe and secure storage for UVA student theses and dissertations.
LibraData is a place for UVA researchers to share data publicly, and is part of the Libra Scholarly Repository suite of services. The LibraData repository is UVA's local instance of Dataverse, developed and used by Harvard University. All data resides on servers physically located on the UVA Grounds, which is an important requirement for many agencies. Also, LibraData is for final, publishable products of research. LibraData is a place for UVA researchers to publish final research data for sharing publicly. You can also deposit data into LibraData even if it's already been made publicly available through another repository. LibraData integrates easily with the Open Science Framework, which allows collaboration and then enables publishing of research products at the appropriate point in the research lifecycle, including to other instances of Dataverse like LibraData.