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The Library network services offer systems and support for online publication of digital materialsresources. The basic service includes tools for entering, managing and online publication of materialsresources, as well as user support, tape backups and user interfaces for using the publication archives digital repositories from other systems.  As As an added service, we convert data from customers’ customers' other systems and refine it into an integral, well-structured publication archiverepository. The service includes technology and tools for online publication; the customer is responsible for the content, such as entering and managing the materials. 

The easiest way to join the service is to become part of Doria, a centralised publications archive repository used by numerous organisations. Should the publication archive repository have a great number of special requirements, a more tailored publication archive repository of their own can be created for the customer. Key parts of the technology have been implemented using the an open source code DSpace software, which has been adapted to suit our purposes. In addition, we also use our own software to complement the package. In addition to Doria, we maintain Theseus, Julkari, TamPub, Jukuri, Fenno-Ugrica, Lauda, UTUPub and LaudaValto.

• Entering data resources is done using forms tailored for customer to customers' needs or directly from customers’ data customers' information systems through interfaces. It is possible to determine user rights and entry stages in the system, which allows management of the materials’ materials' passage through the entry stage towards a finished online publication. For example, it is possible for researchers and students to enter and describe their materials on their own, after which the staff of the organisation will check and revise it further before the final online publication.
• Customers are provided support in material resource management in the form of tools for editing, mass-editing, limiting user rights, and statistics functions, as well as reusing materials and transferring them to other systems.   Customers have complete control over their materials throughout their life cyclelifecycle. For example, customers always have the opportunity to copy and transfer their materials to another system, if they want.
• Online materialsresources are retrievable with tailored browsing and search functions. For text publications, such as PDF files, the search will also cover the whole full text in addition to description datametadata. The Lucene Solr search engine’s engine's syntax enables both easy-to-use and more specific searches within the publication archive or from other systems through user interfaces. This means that searches can for example be integrated for into an online store or a search portal.    Our publication archive repository platform supports OAI interfaces, such as OAI-PMH and OAI-ORE, with the help of through which materials can be harvested into search portals, such as Finna, WorldCat Base, OpenAIRE and BaseCore. The materials can be visibly resources are available to be indexed by search engines, for example Google indexes the whole text full texts in addition to description datametadata. The user interface makes it easy to share the materials on social media. It is always possible to get a permalink for the published materials, which will ensure that the URL of the material resource will remain the same even if the record's platform or service provider changes in the future.
• Conversion services are needed when materials resources are added retrospectively retroactively to the publication archive repository from and old system or from a system to be integrated. Conversion is an individual process, which is always planned in cooperation with the customer. Almost without exception, conversion conversions also entails entail a need to correct deficiencies or inconsistencies originating in from the old systems. Consequently, conversion often also entails harmonisation and enrichment, as a result of which materials resources can be found online more easily. Our publication archives repositories use the a Dublin Core (DC) description metadata format. We will guide help the customer in selecting the to select DC metadata fields suitable for the materialsresources, in order to make them as uniform as possible with the publication archives repositories so that the desired search and browsing needs can be met.

The aim of the institutional repository service Repository services is to support open access to publications produced by the public sector in a long-term persistent and uniform manner. Organisations can focus on their core functions, and parties requiring data information seekers will benefit from the fact that publications are easy to find and harmoniously described. The service is a fee-based business, which finances ; the costs of the service are covered by the fees. However, the costs incurred are negligible low compared to the an organisation managing its own publication archiverepository.   Read more about the phasing of the service rollout, agreements and prices here.