Status of Digital Repositories in India: A Quantitative Study

Abstract

The development of open source digital library software brings an avenue in the pattern of library and information services to collect, organise, preserve and disseminate information resources to the diverse user community.  Digital repositories are created by different institution, organization and agencies to preserve their intellectual output to serve their user.  This paper highlights the present status of Digital Repository (DR) in India by its collection type, subject coverage and total number of digital repository collections available to academic community as open sources. For this purpose, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) have been consulted and recorded 111 DRs in India. Based on the finding the strength of IR is quite satisfactory as compare with other developing countries. The research institutions in India are actively involved in the development of institutional repositories. Use of open source software, especially DSpace, is found to be most commonly used for the creation of DRs in India

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