Growth of Institutional Repositories in India: A Study
Creators
- 1. Ph. D Research Scholar Department of Library and Information Science Mizoram University, Aizawl-796004 E-mail: dkcancer23@gmail.com
Description
This paper discusses reaching the unreached institutional repositories in India. There are 120 institutional repositories available in the directory of open-access repositories in the different subjects. The relevant data were collected from OpenDOAR on 10th January 2023 and simple analyses were made. Among the 106 repositories, 96 (90.56%) are institutional repositories, 3 (2.83%) are disciplinary, 4 (3.77%) are governmental, and 3 (2.83%) are aggregating types. Therefore, it may be said that more than 90% of institutional repositories fall under this category. Additionally, 13 repositories were established in 2013, while none were added in 2018. Four repositories were added in 2022, it is mentioned.