Collection development in digital information repositories in India

Das, Anup Kumar, Sen, B. K. and Dutta, Chaitali Collection development in digital information repositories in India. Vishwabharat@TDIL, 2005, n. 17, pp. 91-96. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

The institutional repository (IR) is a contemporary concept that captures and makes available through Internet and intranet the institutional research output and other relevant documents to the users by way of digitizing the output The IRs have already started emerging in India. This study highlights the importance of IR, delineates the scope and methodology projects the findings. Most of the repositories are using open source information repository software like DSpace, Greenstone Digital Library Software and GNU EPrints. It is observed that generally documents like theses and dissertations, seminar papers, journal articles, etc., are being found more in the repositories. Some of the problems of the repositories have been highlighted and suggestions offered.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Institutional repository; Information repository software; Digital libraries; Collection development; India.
Subjects: J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JG. Digitization.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user: AK Das
Date deposited: 22 Feb 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7237

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