About KORA

Kwantlen Open Resource Access (KORA) is a freely-available digital collection of scholarly and creative works produced by members of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) community.

Scope and Purpose

KORA collects and preserves a wide range of digital works created by, or on behalf of, the University, its faculty, staff, students, and affiliated partners. This institutional repository includes journal articles, conference presentations, reports, videos, and much more.

By sharing this content freely through the Internet, the university supports open scholarly communication and collaborative research both within our local community, and globally. KORA preserves this content and makes it easy to discover, and thereby provides lasting visibility and recognition for scholarship at KPU.

Infrastructure

KORA is part of Arca: a collaborative initiative that puts the development and implementation of a digital repository within reach for every organisation, at a reasonable cost, and in a supported environment.

Arca exists to create opportunities to share digital scholarship and heritage, and to build communities in British Columbia and beyond; for access, discovery, and knowledge creation, with cost-effective, shared infrastructure.

Arca is built on Islandora, a Canadian-developed open-source platform currently in use at over 100 public and private institutions worldwide. This shared platform provides organisations with open-access repositories for research, theses, and any other digital assets they wish to make available to the wider community.

Arca is made possible by a partnership between the BC Electronic Library Network (BC ELN) and Charlottetown, PEI-based software firm discoverygarden. Implementation was supported by a grant from the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills.

Guidelines

KORA is managed by the KPU Library in accordance with established guidelines, and with advice from the KPU Senate Standing Committee on the Library. These guidelines and procedures are subject to change.

Submissions

To submit your publication to KORA, please contact Karen Meijer, the KORA Administrator. Self-submission is not possible at this time.

Questions?

Please see our FAQs section for answers to some commonly-asked questions.
You may also email questions to KORA, or contact Karen Meijer, the KORA Administrator, by phone at 604-599-2978.