The University of Basrah has launched its digital repository of scientific research and postgraduate theses, after creating a special unit in this regard to raise the university's ranking globally by increasing the number of citations for the products of its researchers.
The repository contains the published research of university researchers in all international and local journals, with more than 28,400 published papers and more than 2,000 PhD and master's theses in various disciplines. It also provides researchers at an international level with an important database of scientific resources through metadata-based research methods. It is also linked programmatically to international journal sites to elicit important information and provide it to the researcher.
The digital repository of the University of Basrah is characterized by several technical and scientific features, including the availability of accurate search results and advanced features that allow the researcher to quickly access the required specialization through the use of advanced searching algorithms.
The repository is also distinguished by its software link with sources and research summaries in international sites and indexes (Scopus, Clarivate, Google Scholar). In addition to providing different and accurate statistics on each scientific product of the university and the possibility of downloading files for open source research and downloading abstracts for research and theses that are not open source.
It is worth mentioning that the mechanism for updating this repository was designed in a dynamic and automatic way that facilitates the process of uploading the output in one page, and it is automatically described and classified in the repository, which was designed, programmed and updated by the cadres of the University of Basrah and under the direct supervision of the President of the University, Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi.