Institutional Repositories : A Perspective for the Indian Universities
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2006-11-09
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INFLIBNET Centre
Abstract
The world is witnessing a sea change in the area of scholarly communication. Perhaps
the control over scholarly communication has started a gradual shifting from commercial
publishers to academic organizations and many author initiatives in the area of
Open Access (OA). Open Access is perhaps opening up the major barriers that higher
education institutes and libraries face specially when it comes to escalating journal
prices and shrinking budgets. Institutional Repositories (IRs) are one of the two most
powerful tool to empower and strengthen open access movement. Universities and
other academic institutions of the developed countries are already reaping the rich
benefits of institutional repositories. The technology is free, the software is available
free of cost and the universities are also having the necessary infrastructure for implementing
IRs at their premises. The only required link which is missing is the awareness
and willingness. To make IRs a success awareness is also needed regarding advantages
of self-archiving and publishers’ policies regarding self-archiving. It’s high time
that Indian universities should take a decision and a strong commitment to develop IRs
and convince the faculty members and research scholars to deposit papers in the digital
archive. IRs may also contain learning objects in digital formats thus facilitating IT
enabled pedagogy in the Indian universities.
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Institutional repositories, Open Access, Scholarly Communication, Self-archiving, Open Source Softwares