Institutional Repository at Central Library IIT Kharagpur: An Overview
- Debasis Das
- Parnab Chatterjee
Institutional Digital Repository; Digital Library Software; DSpace; Digital Preservation; Bookeye4
An institutional repository is an on-line resource for the storing in digital form of academic materials, such as thesis, dissertations and research articles, on behalf of a university or other institution. This paper focuses on the requirements, functions and use of digital preservation in an institutional repository context. The paper highlights on various feature and importance of both Institutional Digital Repository and Open Source Digital Library Software that is DSpace. The Central Library IIT, Kharagpur uses open sources digital library software namely DSpace. The IDR of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) collects preserves and makes available in digital format of the scholarly output of IIT Kharagpur community. Its interface provides for an easy self-archiving by faculty, and organizes the documents in logical, easily retrieved fashion.
Debasis Das, Parnab Chatterjee. "Institutional Repository at Central Library IIT Kharagpur: An Overview".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH ISSN:2321-9939, Vol.3, Issue 2, pp.321-328, URL :https://rjwave.org/ijedr/papers/IJEDR1502061.pdf
Volume 3 Issue 2
Pages. 321-328
