This article presents a study of the current state of Universities Institutional Repositories (UIRs) in Canada. UIRs are vital to sharing information and documents, mainly Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETDs), and theoretically allow anyone, anywhere, to access the documents contained within the repository. Despite calls for consistent and shareable metadata in these repositories, our literature review shows inconsistencies in UIRs, including incorrect use of metadata fields and the omission of crucial information, rendering the systematic analysis of UIR complex. Nonetheless, we collected the data of 57 Canadian UIRs with the aim of analyzing Canadian data and to assess the quality of its UIRs. This was surprisingly difficult due to the lack of information about the UIRs, and we attempt to ease future collection efforts by organizing vital information which are difficult to find, starting from addresses of UIRs. We furthermore present and analyze the main characteristics of the UIRs we managed to collect, using this dataset to create recommendations for future practitioners.

翻译：本文对加拿大高校机构存储库的当前状况进行了研究。高校机构存储库对于共享信息和文档至关重要，主要存储电子学位论文，理论上允许任何人在任何地点访问库内收录的文献。尽管要求这些存储库采用一致且可共享的元数据，但我们的文献综述表明，高校机构存储库存在元数据字段使用不当、关键信息缺失等不一致性问题，使得系统性分析高校机构存储库变得复杂。尽管如此，我们仍收集了57个加拿大高校机构存储库的数据，旨在分析加拿大数据并评估其存储库质量。由于存储库相关信息匮乏，这一过程异常困难。我们通过整理难以获取的关键信息（从存储库地址入手），力求简化未来的数据采集工作。此外，我们进一步呈现并分析了所收集存储库的主要特征，并利用该数据集为未来实践者提出建议。