An institutional repository is an archive for collecting; organizing, retrieving, and disseminating digital copies to the user of the institution, These Institutional repositories are a must for research Institutions. Any Institution can develop the institutional repository, as lots of open-source Software is available online. These are the full-text databases where another user can benefit from accessing them.
The basic objective of having an institutional repository is to provide open access to members of that institution by archiving it.
‘Institutional Repository (IR)’ has emerged as a scholarly publishing platform. An IR is a digital archive of the research output of faculty, staff, and students of an academic institution and is easily accessible freely to users both within and outside of the institution.
Institutional Repository includesthe following resources mentioned below :
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- Articles·
- working papers·
- technical reports·
- conference papers·
- Books·
- Theses·
- Data sets·
- Computer programs·
- Visualizations, simulations, and other models·
- Multimedia publications·
- Administrative records·
- Published books·
- Overlay journals·
- Bibliographic datasets·
- Images·
- Audio files·
- Video files·
- Web Pages
There are numerous institutions worldwide using the DSpace application for their Institutional Repository and digital archiving. DSpace is the most used institutional repository platform that provides access to all formats of collection. The DSpace application features and tools can be customized for managing digital content, enabling digital preservation, and providing accessibility to your collection. DSpace is free open-source software. It means that you can download, use, and customize DSpace for free. Users are also allowed to customize DSpace to meet an organization's specific requirements. DSpace code is kept within a source code from Source Forge. This system allows code to be added or modified while maintaining a track of all changes and a note of why the change was done and who did it.
Features of Institutional Repository
- · Facilitates the capture of materials, including metadata of resources
- · Facilitates easy access to the resources, both by listing and searching
- · Facilitates the long-term preservation of the material
- · Organise and store your content easily through the built-in structure
- ·Archive and disseminate materials you would currently put on your personal website
- · Publish materials quickly and that gets worldwide audience through exposure to search engines such as Google
- · Have a permanent network identifier for your work, which never changes
- · Preserve reusable teaching materials that you can use.
- · Store students’ projects
- · Showcase students’ theses
- · Track your own publications and bibliography
The Following are the Software to create an Institutional Repository:
1. DSpace - DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) is open-source software jointly developed by MIT and Hewlett Packed Labs. Its Developer name is DuraSpace. It was initially released in November 2002. Its Repository site is https://github.com/DSpace/DSpaceExamples include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) https://dspace.mit.edu/, DSpace is an open-source repository software that allows you to capture, store, index, preserve, and disseminate your digital material including text, video, audio, and data. DSpace is a platform that provides a way to organize your materials and publications professionally.
Those professionals who want to learn DSpace, Follow the steps :
1. 1 Visit http://demo.dspace.org/jspui/.
2. Click Sign on to: My DSpace
3. Log In
4. Click on Browse
5. Click on Communities and Collections
6. Click on Top Level Community
7. Then page opens Create Community
8. Click on Create Collection
9. Describe Collection, Authorization to submit, Collection metadata, Click on Update
10. Now Click Submit to this Collection
11.Submit the item details (Author ,title, Publisher, Citation, Series, Identifier, Type, Language)
12.Fill keywords, Abstract
13.Access
14.Upload the File
15. The file is uploaded and the name of the file
16.Verify submission
17. Submit the DSpace Distribution License
18. Click I Grant License
19.Now you can submit another Collection
2. Click Sign on to: My DSpace
3. Log In
4. Click on Browse
5. Click on Communities and Collections
6. Click on Top Level Community
7. Then page opens Create Community
8. Click on Create Collection
9. Describe Collection, Authorization to submit, Collection metadata, Click on Update
10. Now Click Submit to this Collection
11.Submit the item details (Author ,title, Publisher, Citation, Series, Identifier, Type, Language)
12.Fill keywords, Abstract
13.Access
14.Upload the File
15. The file is uploaded and the name of the file
16.Verify submission
17. Submit the DSpace Distribution License
18. Click I Grant License
19.Now you can submit another Collection
Some of the Institution where DSpace is Used in India :
NISCAIR-National Science Digital Library | |
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore | |
University of Mysore –Vidyanidhi Project | |
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NITR) | |
West Bengal Public Library Network | |
Institute of Mathematical Sciences | |
Central University of Jharkhand | |
Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata | |
IIM, Ahmedabad | |
Central University of Odisha | |
IIM Kozhikode | |
O.P.Jindal Global University | |
IIT Bombay |
EPrints
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EPrints (https://www.eprints.org/us/) is also an open-source software developed at the University of Southampton. EPrints was the first open-source repository software to be developed, and still used for research, education, and corporate digital repositories in the USA and around the world. An EPrints institutional repository is designed to capture research outputs, make them discoverable and reusable, and preserve them for the future. EPrints will safeguard all your digital objects, from PDFs to data sets. Try a version of EPrints for yourself:
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VITAL
VITAL (https://www.iii.com/products/vital/) is commercial software, product of VTLS. VITAL is an institutional repository solution designed for universities, libraries, archives, and information centers. It provides resources digitally that were once only available at a single location and now to the whole world.
CONTENTdm
CONTENTdm (https://www.oclc.org/en/contentdm.html) is commercial software developed at the University of Washington, & is distributed by OCLC. CONTENTdm has integrated tools where you can quickly create your library's digital collections website. It makes easy to customize your site. It will give a branded look l for your library's digital collections website. The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway tool is integrated with CONTENTdm. You Upload your collection metadata to WorldCat.. Students and scholars can find digital collections from WorldCat.org, and WorldCat Discovery Services. CONTENTdm can support all formats of documents like images, videos, and audio files of any kind. CONTENTdm gives you full control over your digital resources. You can fully modify metadata fields . CONTENTdm allows you a platform to easily build, preserve, and display your digital collections on your personalized website. CONTENTdm secures your collection and monitors your files in a cloud-based archive so they remain preserved and safe for the future.
Bepress
Bepress (https://www.bepress.com/) is commercial software developed by the Berkeley Electronic Press. Bepress builds and hosts their customers’ institutional repositories. It was founded in 1999. Bepress is a software, owned by RELX Group. Initially it began as Berkeley Electronic Press, co-founded by academics Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin. It has a few products and services to support scholarly communication, institutional repositories, and publishing software. Its headquarters is in the US, California.
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