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Published September 29, 2022 | Version v1
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Building Digital Repositories with the Open- Source Software Invenio: Use of SaaS Model Zenodo

  • 1. Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Amity University Punjab, Mohali, Punjab, India.
  • 2. DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
  • 3. Professor, DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Description

Owing to the prevailing ‘unfair’ digital divide, libraries worldwide are unable to build and manage institutional repositories for
preserving and sharing the research output of academia. This paper evaluates and demonstrates how libraries can practically
harness the completely free SaaS service model based on public cloud deployment model infrastructure to fill this divide and achieve
the larger goal of open science. The paper highlights the process and steps of using Zenodo, a FREE and OPEN platform, powered
by Invenio (Free Open-Source Software) RDM infrastructure, to establish a trusted repository with the provision of self-archiving. To
test the KPIs and functionalities, a live online community ‘dlispu’ was built on the Zenodo platform and the archiving process was
executed. The findings of the study reveal that libraries can easily adopt Green Open Access, thus strengthening the scholarly
communication cycle without any upfront and subsequent cost. This immediately outweighs the limitations of the digital divide.
The positive outcomes of the study pave the way for the libraries with resource insufficiencies in making research more findable,
shareable, and reproducible, with confidence. The findings of the study also reveal that the Zenodo repository is a OAI-
PMH-compliant repository supporting metadata harvesting and interoperability.

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