Status of Institutional Repositories in Asian Countries: A Quantitative Study

Nazim, Mohammad and Mukherjee, Bhaskar Status of Institutional Repositories in Asian Countries: A Quantitative Study. Library Philosphy & Practice, 2011, vol. Annual, n. Novemb. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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ICT and availability of open sources software packages has enabled most of the institutions to maintain institutional repository or archive to collect, preserve, and make accessible the intellectual output created by their scholarly communities. There are more than 1800 Institutional Repositories (IRs) world wide of which more than 50% are in USA, UK, Germany and Spain. There has been relatively little systematic examination of the actual state of deployment of IRs in Asian countries. This study attempts to identify the present status of IRs in the countries of Asia. Data of repositories was collected from various directories of IRs. Data is analyzed in terms of quantity of IRs increased during last five years, country-wise IRs and number of objects, types of materials archived, subject coverage, software used, language of interface, host domains, and policy maaters. The results of the study suggest healthy growth in terms of quantity of IRs in Asian countries. The subject analysis of the IRs indicates that the institutes in the field of sciences and technology are more interested to create IRs than social sciences, arts and humanities. Currently the IRs mostly housed traditional (print-oriented) scholarly publications and grey literature, using DSpace software and most of these materials were of English language. However, the policy of content inclusion, submission and preservation is yet to be well defined in IRs.

Item type:	Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords:	Institutional Repositories; Open Access; India
Subjects:	H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user:	Dr. Mohammad Nazim
Date deposited:	18 Apr 2012
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:22
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16854

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