Scenario of University Libraries Initiative Towards Institutional Repositories in Nagpur Region: An Analysis of University Library’s Webpages

Abstract

Universities are enriched with its resources like thesis and dissertations. These unpublished research materials do not have a digital platform to share them to the users who need information on topic of their research.Unless they visit the library; they will not get access to these dissertations in physical form. Users may get access to digital thesis of universities through the repositories of the universities. The study is based on analysis of the websites of universities and institutions.The study discussed and focused on the present status of the universities in Nagpur Region whether these universities are having institutional repositories and how these could be accessible to the users. The study also finds out whether any other institutions other than universities are having institutional repositories in this region. It was concluded that lot many efforts must be taken, to show case the universities own published material as well as thesis and dissertations through institutional repositories. If university libraries will provide soft copies of these research reports through institutional repositories, then only the world-wide researchers will get access to them. The research institutions are also having institutional repositories in this region and having rich resources in the digital form.