Open Science repository platforms

Institutional and thematic repositories today play a key role in scholarly communication and more broadly in scientific workflows. Many institutions and communities have set the ambitious goal of providing an open access repository for their community of users. However, given the amount of expectations from their users, choosing the right solution is often a non-trivial choice. Some platforms may be served out-of-the-box, to be put in operation after straightforward configurations, but are in general less customizable to adhere to specific functional, non-functional, or contextual needs. Other platforms may be instead extremely customizable and flexible but require skilled personnel for their adaptation and deployment. This report performs an analysis of existing state-of-the-art Open Source repository solutions from the functional, operational, and software perspectives. As a result of the analysis, it will factor out the pros and cons of such solutions and identify typical scenarios of adoption.