Firstly, it has the ability to capture, index, store,
disseminate and preserve digital material created by
the academic community, including scholarly articles
and pre-prints, theses, technical reports, archives and
other textual material, together with different formats
such as multimedia clips, interactive teaching programs,
datasets and databases. Secondly, it will provide a home
for the increasing amount of material that is being
digitized from the University Library’s collections.34