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The study aims to discuss the issues of legislation, regulatory procedures and rights to protect information and data in open source institutional repositories on the internet in the Arab Gulf States, and the related issues to the free access of information such as data protection, information resources, privacy and the intellectual property, in accordance with international standards and legislation. We also review the available institutional repositories on the internet as one of the tools on internet communities that are interlinked as resources of information for scientific research. The protection of institutional digital repositories and its privacy is one of the modern tools recently added to the service of scientific research, because it contains scientific theses and dissertations, scientific discoveries, studies and research in all fields that include the results of research reached by the researchers, faculty members and graduate students in universities, found in research centers and academic libraries. The issue of protecting information and data in institutional repositories is one of the most important issues that occupy the minds of decision-makers, library and information centers managers in the Arab Gulf States. The current study attempts to highlight the review and analysis of protection issues, legislation, rights, and regulations for theses/articles and other information resources that are deposited in the institutional repositories in Gulf countries. This is in accordance to copyrights law and affect the protection of data and information resources in the open-source digital repositories on the internet in the Arab Gulf countries, to the extent to which these legislations are implemented on the ground. This is done to provide safety of information and data to researchers, faculty members and graduate students through free access to information.
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