Welcome to Open AIR: App State's Institutional Repository
Institutional repositories are a valuable resource for universities, acting as digital archives that house and showcase content produced by faculty, staff, and students, including scholarly and creative works, data sets, and theses and dissertations.
By centralizing and digitizing these works, Open AIR provides increased visibility and accessibility. Making content available to a global audience increases the interaction with and impact of Appalachian State's research and creative output.
Open AIR provides a long-term preservation solution for scholarly content. Digital repositories are designed to safeguard materials against deterioration and loss and include robust backup and archiving processes.
Open AIR also facilitates open access, aligning with the progression toward open science and supporting the democratization of knowledge. By making research freely available, repositories break down barriers to information, and promote collaboration between researchers around the world.
Information is power. Making research available to the widest possible audience can equip humanity to overcome planetary crises with the combined force of ingenuity and generosity.
