UOB Digital Repository.

The University of Baghdad Digital Repository is the central hub for all academic output across Iraq's largest university. Every master's thesis, PhD dissertation, and faculty publication — over 35,000 in total — lives in one place, searchable by anyone, contributed to by every researcher and doctor within the university.

The Problem It Solved

Before this platform, UOB's research output was scattered across more than 34 separate OJS websites — one per college or department. Finding a specific publication meant knowing which college published it, navigating to that site, and hoping the search worked. Cross-department discovery was practically impossible. Research that should have been visible to the world was effectively hidden.

The repository collapses all 34 sites into a single, unified platform.

The Platform

Every UOB master's student, PhD candidate, and faculty member has an account. They submit, manage, and track their publications through a personal dashboard. The public-facing side is open to everyone — researchers, students, and institutions worldwide can search the full catalogue without an account.

Integrations

The repository doesn't exist in isolation. It connects to the academic publishing ecosystem that researchers and institutions already rely on:

• OJS (Open Journal Systems) — syncs existing journal publications from all previous department sites
• Scopus — links publications to their Scopus index records and citation metrics
• Google Scholar — ensures all publications are discoverable and properly attributed in Scholar profiles
• And more indexing services to maximise the global visibility of UOB research

The Scale

35,000+ publications at launch. Thousands of active user accounts spanning every college in the university. A search engine that has to be fast, precise, and capable of handling complex academic queries — by author, department, year, keyword, and publication type — across a dataset that grows every semester.