An important role in the preservation and dissemination of the institutional scientific production and increasing universities’ visibility in the academic environment is given to institutional repositories. They become an essential part of the academic institution. The paper presents the steps in creating institutional repositories of Moldova’s universities and reflects the main aspects connected to diagnosing the situation concerning archiving of scientific research, human resources, technical resources and soft ware. The article also describes the process of advocacy and the documentation regulating the process of repository organization and functioning.