Present Status of Institutional Repositoriesof India

C S Venkatarama Reddy     &    Dr. S. SrinivasaRagavan

         

 Abstract:

               The paper highlights the status of the institutional repositories of India. In India open access movement is getting impetus in libraries to overcome the access barriers of scholarly publications. The institutional repositories were identified through a study of literature, as well as consultation of various directories like OpenDOAR, ROAR, Dspace.org, and the respective websites. Total 60 institutional repositoriesare analysed for the study, India is in 2^nd place in the Asian continent, list of Indian institutional repositories is given in table, R&D institutions having 54% of institutional repositories in India and the study shows that Dspace (65%) is the most commonly used open source software followed by Eprints(28%). And also study shows that Karnataka (23.3%) is having highest number of institutional repositories.