Based on the responses to a recent Bsky thread on open access, 3 key problems with universities' current repositories are: 1) Most members of the public don't know they exist or what they are for; 2) Discoverability (that is, lack thereof); 3) Inability to search across repositories impedes utility.
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What have I been saying about Discoverability for much of the past two decades? He said, not very helpfully...
Most repositories are highly discoverable insofar as individual papers are well optimised for web search; the ability to search within individual repositories is IMO a second-order concern
I think you can search across university repositories using Open Alex but my guess is that the public would not be aware of that.