Institutional repository

Institutional Repository

1. Institutional Repository Prepared By: Saurabh Kaushik Dept: LIS Roll No- 6553

2. Contents Definition IR Users Benefits Challenges Key Features and Functionality IR Software's Role of Librarian Role of Author Economics

3. Definition An IR is a service that a research organization offers to its community for the management and dissemination of research material created by the community members. Currently used by the leading academic and research institutions worldwide for providing improved access to their research publications. Digital achieves of the products created by the faculty, staff and students of an institution and group of institutions accessible to end users both within or outsides the institution. IR redefines the production and dissemination of scholarly material within an academic community.

4. Definition An IR is a organization based set of services which the organization offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of the digital material created by the institutions and its community members. It is most essential an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including the long term preservation, where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution (Clifford Lynch 2003). An IR is an online archive for collecting, preserving and disseminating digital copies of the output of an institution, particularly a research institution (Wikipedia). Provide platform to manage institutional information, including web contents

5. IR Users Senior Administration Graduate Students Retiring Professors University Research Scholars Institutes and centers Organization

6. Benefits Specific to the University Increasing visibility and prestige Centralization and storage of all type of institutional output. Support for learning and teaching Standardization of institutional records Ability to keep track and analyze research performance Breaking down the publishers cost and permission Maintain information in long term Promotion of philosophy of wider information

7. Benefits Specific to author Dissemination and impact of scholarship. Studies estimated that open articles are cited 50% to 250% more than non-open access articles. Storage and access to wide range of materials. Feedback from users. Added value services, such as hit count on papers. A central archive for researcher work. Benefits to the researchers and their institutions in terms of prestige.

8. Challenges Cost Difficulty in generating contents Sustaining support and commitment Rights management issues Working culture issues Policy Lack of Incentives

9. Features and Functionality Registration of Institutional Users Document submission User authentication Profile Setup Document Submission Authentication Upload Document License Approval/Moderation Submission Content Approval

10. Features and Functionality Archiving Data stamping Unique/persistent identifier assignment Preserving support Indexing and storage Dissemination Search/ Browse Right Management Administration Administration communities, collection, u sers, groups Document format Preservation Submission Policies

11. IR Software Greenstone Opus Eprints Dspace Mycore Fedora digital object repository management system Invenio SobekCM

12. Role of Librarian Advocacy Building content Collection administrator and metadata specialist Training

13. Role of Author Uploading of research output Responding to questions and comments posted by readers Updating material especially pre-print articles and work in progress Ensuring high quality and standard of materials Negotiating copyright issues with publishers. This should be done before the publication of the paper.

14. Economics Software- Eprint, Dspace etc. Hardware- A dedicated server with sufficient capacity must be included in the budget Staffing Running cost(Operating and Maintainence ) Marketing and advocacy

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