Vishala, B KBhandi, M K2010-05-212010-05-212007-02-08978-81-902079-4-2http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1438Institutional repositories represent an historical and tangible embodiment of the intellectual life and output of an institution. These are now clearly and broadly being recognized as essential infrastructure for scholarship in the digital world. The paper seeks to provide an overview of Institutional repositories its benefits to the institutions and also describes the role of library in building an Institutional repository.enInstitutional RepositoryBenefits of IROpen Archives InitiativeE-print, DSpaceArticle