Use of Repositories and its Significance for Engineering Education / El Uso de Repositorios y su Importancia para la Educaci\'on en Ingenier\'ia

TL;DR

This paper discusses the significance of institutional repositories in engineering education, emphasizing their role in democratizing knowledge, supporting open access, and evolving to serve societal needs in academic and scientific contexts.

Contribution

It highlights the importance of repositories in engineering education and advocates for their development to enhance knowledge dissemination and social contribution.

Findings

Repositories promote open access to engineering knowledge.

They support social and human development.

Repositories are evolving to meet future societal needs.

Abstract

Institutional repositories are deposits of different types of digital files for access, disseminate and preserve them. This paper aims to explain the importance of repositories in the academic field of engineering as a way to democratize knowledge by teachers, researchers and students to contribute to social and human development. These repositories, usually framed in the Open Access Initiative, allow to ensure access free and open (unrestricted legal and economic) to different sectors of society and, thus, can make use of the services they offer. Finally, that repositories are evolving in the academic and scientific, and different disciplines of engineering should be prepared to provide a range of services through these systems to society of today and tomorrow.