DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES OF HERITAGE GROUP OF COLLEGES USING D-SPACE: A CASE STUDY

Library and information science

An Institutional Repository is a tool useful to all academics and also a best tool for resource sharing and support in providing services to users or to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. An institutional repository includes different types of documents and materials such as e-prints, technical reports, theses and dissertations, data sets and teaching materials generated by scholars. IR serves as an information product which helps in compiling the institutional intellectual resources at one place and make it available for common use. Universities are places where qualitative knowledge in the form of publications are generated continuously, but the compilation of these resources is not properly recorded even in secondary resources and left as grey. Due to voluminous growth of literature, the need is felt to develop a mechanism to isolate and prepare a collection at university level and later linked for the academic purpose. ICT and open source software solved the problem of storage and retrieval and to develop institutional repositories of publications and create facility for making availability of publications through building IR. The present research study deeply investigated the need and use of IR of The Heritage Group of Colleges. Here, it has also discussed how Institutional Repositories have designed by the Open Source Software D Space and how the developmental process is going on to improve its usability. But some findings and suggestions are have made on the basis of survey.

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