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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied.Design/methodology/approachOpen directory of open access repositories (DOAR) as a data-gathering tool was consulted for extracting the desired data.FindingsIndia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lead other South Asian nations in terms of IRs count. Majority of the IRs are operational in nature with higher number of operational IRs from India. In terms of record count, India leads the list. “Journal articles” outscore other content type and majority of the IRs have OAI-PMH as their base URL. DSpace stays a prioritized software for content management in IRs. Majority of the IRs have not defined their content management policies. English stays a prioritized language of the content dotting the South Asian IRs and majority of the IRs not providing usage statistics. A good score of IRs has incorporated Web 2.0 tools in them with RSS as the preferred Web 2.0 tool. A good count of the IRs has not customized their interface. Majority of the IRs have interface in two languages.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of the study is that the findings of the research are based on the data collected through the repositories indexed by Open DOAR.Originality/valueThe study tries to explore the characteristic features of IRs from the South Asian region. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Online Information Review Emerald Publishing

Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

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Emerald Publishing
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1468-4527
DOI
10.1108/oir-03-2019-0087
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied.Design/methodology/approachOpen directory of open access repositories (DOAR) as a data-gathering tool was consulted for extracting the desired data.FindingsIndia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh lead other South Asian nations in terms of IRs count. Majority of the IRs are operational in nature with higher number of operational IRs from India. In terms of record count, India leads the list. “Journal articles” outscore other content type and majority of the IRs have OAI-PMH as their base URL. DSpace stays a prioritized software for content management in IRs. Majority of the IRs have not defined their content management policies. English stays a prioritized language of the content dotting the South Asian IRs and majority of the IRs not providing usage statistics. A good score of IRs has incorporated Web 2.0 tools in them with RSS as the preferred Web 2.0 tool. A good count of the IRs has not customized their interface. Majority of the IRs have interface in two languages.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation of the study is that the findings of the research are based on the data collected through the repositories indexed by Open DOAR.Originality/valueThe study tries to explore the characteristic features of IRs from the South Asian region.

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Online Information Review – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jan 22, 2020

Keywords: Open access; Institutional repositories; Green road to open access; Institutional repositories-content management policies; Institutional repositories-South Asia; Open access repositories

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