Institutional repository is one of the most common tools for providing open access to research results. The relevance of repositories is always confirmed by the number of appeals to them.
According to the results of the global ranking Transparent Ranking: Institutional Repositories by Google Scholar from Webometrics, the repository of Lviv Polytechnic National University took the second place among the institutional repositories of Ukraine (64th place in the world) by the number of documents indexed by Google Scholar – 43,500 (as of August 2021 year). On the first place is the repository of Sumy State University (35th place in the world).