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The article outlines the overview of Institutional Repositories. A growing number of universities
across the globe are running institutional repositories projects using open source software,
while many others are in the planning stages. We move towards global sharing of information
using these software and librarian have to play pivotal role in archiving the digital content,
produced by the faculty members. Within next few years, I expect that universities in India
also create repositories and effectively use open source software. This article describes
about the current development of Open Access Initiative, Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) an important infrastructure component for Institutional
repositories. A convergence of technology developments and other initiatives has made
IRs possible. Technology costs, especially storage costs, have dropped significantly. There
is now a variety of open source and commercial software platforms available for an institution
wishing to develop an IR.. The paper highlights about general overview of Institutional
Repositories, open source software, standard and protocol and role of INFLIBNET. |