The aim of ROAR is to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the World.
Open access to research maximises research access and thereby also research impact, making research more productive and effective.

DSpace is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material. Repositories are important tools for preserving an organization's legacy; they facilitate digital preservation and scholarly communication. CUI Lahore Library collects, preserve and distribute the intellectual assests of COMSATS students.

Columbia University’s provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline.

DSpace@MIT provides the full text of open access theses free of charge.You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline. 

Carnegie Mellon’s institutional repository contains conference proceedings, working papers and technical reports, and theses in thirteen separate collections relevant to management sciences.  

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline.

 UKnowledge provides full text ,open access dissertations and theses free of charge.You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline. 

The University of Pretoria supports free access to research literature for all researchers worldwide and takes responsibility for the dissemination of its own research outputs. Because theses and dissertations are not formally published it is even more important that the University itself should provide access to them.

Scholars' Bank is an open access digital archive for the scholarly and creative output of the University of Oregon community. Its mission is to preserve and disseminate the intellectual and creative output of the University of Oregon's faculty, staff, and students.

The University of Detroit Mercy Libraries present these bachelors theses, masters theses, and doctoral dissertations as fulfillment of students' requirements for graduation. This set of collections also includes student projects, including capstones and other creative and academic student work. The documents reflect the research, analysis, creative interpretation, and writing of the respective students. The University of Detroit Mercy accepts these theses as the original work of each student without endorsement of any specific theories, themes, architecture structure or creative interpretation.