The document summarizes a study exploring the use of web-based open access institutional repositories in Indian universities. It finds that 27 functional repositories currently exist across various central, state, private and deemed universities in India. The majority use the DSpace platform and contain multidisciplinary content in English. Most repositories are not large in size. Only a few have formal institutional repository policies. The study provides an analysis of the current state of institutional repositories in Indian universities.

1. Web BasedOpen Access Institutional Repositories in
Indian Universities:
An Exploratory Study
Presented by
Sriparna Das Purkayastha
Central Library, Assam University, Silchar
Nilratan Bhattacharjee
Department of Library and Information Science
Assam University, Silchar

2. O Creation of new knowledge through the practices of research
and scholarship is a core activity of the university community
and it lies in the heart of every university’s mission. Research
and scholarship created within a university community should be
disseminated in a large scale to the global world for building
capacity of the institutional research and to make contribution in
the global research output. Previously universities have depends
more on print form of publication systems for disseminating and
communicating institutional research output, but after the
development of digital technologies specially Institutional
repositories, universities are now in a better position to share
their intellectual scholarly research output to the digital world in a
fast, easy and convenient way.
INTRODUCTION

3. Institutional Repository
O Institutional Repository (IR) is a digital
archive of intellectual scholarly products
created by the scholar community of an
institution or group of institutions accessible
to end users both within and outside the
institution.

4. OBJECTIVES
O The primary aim of this paper is to explore the current
scenario of the initiatives taken so far for building web based
IR in Indian universities. The specific objectives of this study
are as follows;
O To find outnumber of web based Institutional repositories in
Indian Universities;
O To know the number of repositories registered with online
repository database directory.
O To analyse the characteristics of Indian University based
online IR’s in terms of their content type, subject coverage,
size, language, software use, IR policy etc.

5. O The survey method was adopted in this study to
analysis the current status of online institutional
repositories in Indian universities. Survey of all
the Indian university websites have been done
by the researchers for retrieving the primary
data relevant to the present study. Research
data was analysed and conclusions were drawn
and presented in the form of tables in this
paper.
methodology

6. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
O This study was confined to explore the web
based Institutional repository initiatives of
Indian universities. All the central, state and
private universities of India are included in
this study which has an web based
Institutional repository.
O The limitations of this study lies in the fact
that it covers only the web based
institutional repositories of Indian
universities and Institutional or Local Area
Network (LAN) based Institutional
repositories are excluded from the study.

7. O The study founds that a total of twenty
seven (27) functional university based web
Institutional repositories are present in India
so far including Central, State, Private and
Deemed Universities.
ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS

8. State No of
Repositories
Karnataka 4
Kerala 3
Delhi 4
Gujarat 3
Jharkhand 1
Punjab 2
Uttar Pradesh 1
West Bengal 2
Sikkim 1
Goa 1
Meghalaya 1
Pondicherry 1
Jammu and Kashmir 1
Himachal Pradesh 1
Tamil Nadu 1
STATE WISE REPRESENTATION OF INSTITUTIONAL
REPOSITORIES-INDIAN UNIVERSITIES

9. Repertories Registered With Online Repository
Database Directory.
O Software Usage: Study founds that a total of 20
repositories out of 27 (74.07%) repositories are running on
DSpace platform followed by EPrint 5 (18.51%), CALIBRE
1 (3.70%), Nitya 1 (3.70%).
Online Database
Repository
No of repositories
registered
DOAR 17
ROAR 14
Both 13
Not Registered 09

10. Subject Wise IR
O Study shows that out of 27 university based IR
multidisciplinary repositories are highest in number with
24 (88.88%) repositories, followed by Social Sciences 2
(7.40%), health and medicine 1 (3.70%). It is clear from
the present study that in most of the cases one
repository archives more than one subject.
O Language Variety
Language No of
Repositories
Percentage (%)
English 27 100%
Hindi 4 14.8%
Sanskrit 3 11.1%
Gujarati 3 11.1%
Bengali 2 7.40%
Arabic 1 3.70%
Persian 1 3.70%
Kashmiri 1 3.70%
Malayalam 1 3.70%

11. IR-Policy :
Developing IR- Policies is an important, necessary, and
complex activity during implementation of an IR. In the present
survey of web based Indian universities institutional repositories
it is found that only two (2) of the repositories have a clearly
mentioned IR-Policies viz. Saurastra University and
University of Kashmir.
Size of the repositories :
Study result found that in terms of size Jadavpur University’s IR
is the biggest repository with 28,129 items among all the Indian
University’s Institutional repositories and Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University is least with 135 items.

12. Sl.
No
Name of the University Link to IR Software
used
Size
1. Cochin University of Science and
Technology-Digital Library
http://dspace.cusat.ac.in/jspui/ DSpace 6833
2. Cochin University of Science and
Technology- Digital Repository,
Dyuthi
http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/ DSpace 3647
3. Goa University http://library.unigoa.ac.in:8081/xml
ui/
DSpace 534
4. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
University
http://dspace.ipu.edu:8080/xmlui/ DSpace 135
5. IGNOU (egyankosh) http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/ DSpace 26996
6. Jadavpur University http://dspace.jdvu.ac.in/ DSpace 28129
7. KLE University http://182.48.228.18:8080/jspui/ DSpace 430
8. M.S University of Baroda http://14.139.121.106:8080/jspui/ DSpace 261
9. National University of Educational
Planning and Administration ,
New Delhi
http://14.139.60.153/ DSpace 5732
10. North-Eastern Hill University http://dspace.nehu.ac.in/ DSpace 4590
11. Osmania University Digital Library http://oudl.osmania.ac.in/ DSpace 24506
12. PanditDeendayal Petroleum
University, Ganghinagar
http://203.77.192.116:8080/xmlui/ DSpace 162
13. Pondicherry University http://dspace.pondiuni.edu.in/jspui/ DSpace 572
14. SRM University http://digitallibrary.srmuniv.ac.in/ds
pace/
DSpace 364

13. 15. Thapar University, http://dspace.thapar.edu:8080/dspac
e/
DSpace 2636
16. University of Delhi http://eprints.du.ac.in/ EPrints 170
17. University of Kashmir http://dspaces.uok.edu.in/jspui/ DSpace 989
18. University of Mysore http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/ EPrint 9286
19. Vidyasagar University http://14.139.211.206:8080/jspui/ DSpace 633
20. Manipal University http://eprints.manipal.edu/ EPrints 9245
21 Mahatma Gandhi University http://www.mgutheses.org/ Nitya 1898
22 RGUHS, Delhi http://14.139.159.4:8080/jspui/ DSpace 8537
23 ChitkaraUniversity http://dspace.chitkara.edu.in/jspui/ DSpace 161
24 Saurastra University http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.e
du/
EPrints 1015
25 Central University of
Jharkhand
http://dspace.cuj.ac.in/jspui/ DSpace 341
26 Christ University, Bangalore http://repository.christuniversity.in/ EPrints 4922
27 Aligarh Muslim University http://socsccybraryamu.ac.in/ CALIBR
E
14782

14. Institutional Repositories now plays an important role in academic
and research institutions, where intellectual/ cultural outputs are
being archived, managed and disseminated to the global world.
Institutional Repositories are now undoubtedly recognized as an
essential tool for sharing the scholarly research output of a
university community. It is one of the best possibilities which can
be utilised by each and every university community to make their
research output widely available and accessible to interested
users throughout the world. Present study gives a clear status of
the web based IR’s of Indian Universities and from the results it
concludes that Indian Universities are still lagging behind in
developing IR’s in comparison to universities of developed
countries.
CONCLUSION

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