INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN INDIA: AN EVALUATIVE STUDY

The present society is an information society where information possess its value in all walks of life and there is not a single minute when information producing, storing, maintaining and dissemination didn't take place. Institutional repositories are a small step towards achieving a big objective of information dissemination to the right person at right time. Institutional Repository consists of formally organized and managed collections of digital contents generated by faculty, staff and students at an institution and are concerned with the collection, management, preservation, and dissemination of intellectual output of an individual institution in a digital form within and outside the institution. The Study gives a detailed list of institutional repositories in India along with their special characteristics/features that make them unique and serviceable to its user community. Indian researchers get number of barriers in their research while getting needed material like deterioration of primary source, distance factor & non availability of needed source. The only way to tap this missing research is the concerned Institutional repositories. Although a number of studies have been carried out discussing growth and development, technical and establishment issues of Indian Institutional Repositories, no effort has been made to explore various kinds of documents available in these repositories. The present study is an endeavour in this direction.