CURRENT STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO IITs, IIMs AND NITs Presented in 16th National Convention on Knowledge, Library and Information Networking

on Emerging Technologies and Innovations in Library Practice, NACLIN.

Dr. Purnima KaushikAssociate Professor & Head

Department of LISUniversity of Rajasthan, Jaipur

&Mili Bajpai

Dr. Robert Heiling LibraryS. M. S. Medical College, Jaipur

10-12 December 2013

E-mail: milibajpai@gmail.com

NACLIN 2013, Jaipur

NEEDS OF IRs IN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

Improve access to a wide variety of learning

materials for teachers and learners.

Improve access to the latest research for

academicians and researchers.

Minimize the cost of creating and providing

access to resources.

Ensuring the long-term sustainability of

digital resources and systems in education.

Share and reuse digital objects.

Improve the quality of learning experience.

NEEDS OF IRs IN ACADEMIC INSTITUTES (Contd.)

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

To know the actual status of IRs in India.

To know the status of IRs in IITs, IIMs, NITs, and

Universities.

To know the status of IRs in research

Organizations.

To know most popular software for IRs.

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY SOFTWARE

1. Archimedes - The Open CAD

2. Bepress (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Services)

3. CDSware (An OAI-compliant software for document servers developed at CERN)

4. CONTENTdm (Digital Collection Management Software by OCLC)

5. DSpace (An open source repository software package)

6. EPrints (EPrints is a free and open-source software package)

7. Fedora (Fedora is a general-purpose, open-source digital object repository system)

8. Greenstone (Greenstone is a suite of open-source software)

9. Open Repository (Registered DSpace Provider offers Repository Hosting, Deployment, & Customization, Repository support training & maintenance.)

METHODOLOGY

The available literature on the topic has been used to examine

the IR concept in the country. Relevant literature was also

obtained by browsing different notable websites.

For conducting this study, authors have consulted the Registry

of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), and the Directory of

Open Access Repositories (open DOAR).

INSTITUTINAL REPOSTORYs IN INDIA

Many initiatives have been observed in India to digitiz and preserve

available knowledge. Various institutions have established their IRs to

share resources and making their visibility worldwide. Academic

institutions have also started preserving and sharing their resources with

the help of IRs. The repository can be created and modified according to

the needs and use of an institution. To create IR, many open sources

software are available which are free and easily downloadable.

STATUS OF IRs IN INDIA

As per Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR), there are 97 institutions having IR but some of them are repeated in the list available.

As per Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (Open DOAR), there are 65 institutions having repositories in India.

India stands second in Asia after Japan (89) in the number of IRs. (ROAR information)

India stands third after Japan (135) and Taiwan (58) as per Open DOAR information.

We choose 81 IR for our study.

STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN INDIA(Contd.)

Table no1below show the status of IRs in India. In this

study 81 institutions in India (including IITs, IIMs, NITs,

universities, research organizations, etc) have IRs.

Study reveals that most of the IRs are using Dspace

software. Out of 81 IRs, 50 are using Dspace, 25

Eprint, 2 Greenstone, and 4 are using other software.

STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY IN INDIAN INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY (IITs)

S. NO. NAME OF THE INSTITUTE INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

PRESENT

SOFTWARE PACKAGE

USED

1 IIT Kharagpur YES Dspace

2 IIT Bombay YES Dspace

3 IIT Madras YES E print

4 IIT Kanpur YES Dspace

5 IIT Delhi YES E print

6 IIT Guwahati NO -

7 IIT Roorkee NO -

8 IIT Ropar YES Dspace

9 IIT Bhubaneshwar NO -

10 IIT Hyderabad NO -

11 IIT Gandhinagar NO -

12 IIT Patna NO -

13 IIT Rajasthan NO -

14 IIT Indore NO -

15 IIT Mandi NO -

Total 15 (100%) 6 (40%)

STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY IN INDIAN INSTITUTES OF MANAGEMENT (IIMs)

S.NO. NAME OF THE INSTITUTE INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

PRESENT

SOFTWARE PACKAGE USED

1 IIM Calcutta NO -

2 IIM Ahmedabad YES Dspace

3 IIM Lucknow NO -

4 IIM Bangalore YES E-print

5 IIM Shillong NO -

6 IIM Kozhikode YES Dspace

7 IIM Indore NO -

8 IIM Rohtak NO -

9 IIM Raipur

10 IIM Ranchi YES Dspace

11 IIM Tiruchirppalli

12 IIM Udiapur

13 IIM Kashipur

STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY IN NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY (NITs)

S. NO. NAME OF THE INSTITUTE INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORYPRESENT

SOFTWARE PACKAGEUSED

1 Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar NO -

2 National Institute of Technology, Agartala NO -

3 Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad NO -

4 Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal NO -

5 National Institute of Technology, Calicut NO -

6 National Institute of Technology, Durgapur NO -

7. National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur NO -

8. Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur NO -

9. National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur NO -

10. National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra NO -

11 Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur NO

12. National Institute of Technology, Patna NO -

13. National Institute of Technology, Raipur NO -

14. National Institute of Technology, Rourkela YES E- print

15. National Institute of Technology, Silchar NO -

16. National Institute of Technology, Srinagar NO -

17. S V National Institute of Technology, Surat YES E-print

18. National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal NO -

19. National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli NO -

20. National Institute of Technology, Warangal NO -

21. National Institute of Technology Goa NO -

22. National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal NO -

23. National Institute of Technology Delhi NO -

24. National Institute of Technology Mizoram NO -

25. National Institute of Technology Meghalaya NO -

26. National Institute of Technology Manipur NO -

27. National Institute of Technology Nagaland NO -

28. National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh NO -

29. National Institute of Technology Sikkim NO -

Total 2 (7%)

STATUS OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY IN STATE, CENTRAL, DEEMED AND PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES

S. NO. NAME OF THE INSTITUTE INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

PRESENT

SOFTWARE PACKAGE

USED

1 University of Kashmir YES Greenstone

2 Bangalore University YES Dspace

3 Cochin University of S&T YES Dspace

4 GGSI University YES Dspace

5 Thapar University YES Dspace

6 University of Hyderabad YES Dspace

7 University of Mysore YES Dspace

8 Delhi University YES Eprint

9 IGONU YES Dspace

10 Madurai Kamraj University YES Eprint

11 MG University YES Nitya

12 Pt. Deendayal Petrolium University YES Dsapce

259 State universities - -

130 Deemed Universities - -

65 Private University - -

42 Central universities - -

Total 496 12 (2.41%)

EPILOGUE

Today institutional repository is the current area of research in India

The development of IRs in India is fast and many

institutes are taking up initiatives to set up them.

The prospect of Indian IR s are bright.

Libraries will server their users better, and help them

preserve their treasure of knowledge for future .

THANK YOU