Teachers' Awareness And Participation In Institutional Repository Movement At Assam University, Silchar
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2018-11
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Universities play the prime role in Research and Development (R&D) of any country. The teachers
of the university thus bear the responsibility to generate more and more knowledge resources to
keep the nation in the forefront. Institutional Repositories (IRs) are thus being created to keep and
store the intellectual assets of any university or a particular organization. It keeps the materials in
central place so that anyone from anywhere can access and use these resources. But little interest
among the teachers has greatly affected the main goal of IR success. The present paper deals with the
results of a survey conducted among the teachers of Assam University which represents their awareness
about IRs. The present paper also highlights the issues related to university based repository.
The results showed that though the university has implemented a functional IR but there are still
some hesitations among teachers regarding IR participation and use. The researchers thus suggested
for organizing more and more awareness programmes on IR and its advantages so that more
teachers get familiar and get comfortable to use it.
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11th Convention PLANNER 2018, Tripura University, Agartala, Tripura, November 15-17, 2018
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Institutional Repository, Open Access, Teachers, Assam University, India