Institutional Repository of INFLIBNET Centre Using Dspace

Abstract

Universities and other organization are producing digital objects articles, reports, thesis, Audio/Video, datasets in ever increasing number. Libraries around the world are building up their own Institutional repository centre using a variety of software packages for digital asset and content management and also collect, preserve and provide access to these digital objects. This paper will highlight the needs of an Institutional Repository and the initiative taken up by the INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network Centre) in building up the Institutional Repository by using the open source software Dspace developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.