One could argue that the choice of software is a minor issue when setting up an institutional repository and that the big task is the one that follows, namely to induce the researchers to actually add their publications to the archive. It is true that getting the researchers to actually use the archive is the big challenge no matter what software you are using. Even so the choice of software and what it can do does affect the acceptance of the archive. In my paper I will make a presentation of requirements on software and organization that we have found are important to make a repository accepted and used by the researchers and the administration at Lund University. I will also give a brief overview of some of the main software alternatives available for setting up IRs, including the one we are developing ourselves which is based on the experiences that we have gained since 2002, when we launched our present archive
