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Wednesday, September 03, 2008

New book on Indian institutional repositories

Smitha Ramachandran and Gayatri Doctor (eds.), Digital Institutional Repositories: Case Studies, Icfai Books, 2008.  The table of contents:

  1. Collection Development in Digital Information Repositories in India
  2. Open Access Initiatives in India - An Evaluation
  3. Institutional Repository Enhances Visibility and Prestige of the Institute - The Case of National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
  4. Re-engineering of Library and Information Services through Web Modeling at Delhi College of Engineering
  5. Design and Development of an Institutional Repository at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
  6. Enhancing Digital Repository of Scholarly Publications at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB) India
  7. Development of ETD Repository at IITK Library using DSpace
  8. Experimenting with a Model Digital Library of ETDs for Indian Universities using DSpace
  9. Implementation of a Digital Institutional Repository DSpace@IBSA
  10. Digital Library of SIP Reports using Greenstone at IBS Ahmedabad
  11. Scholarly Communication in a Digital World: The Role of the Digital Repository at the Raman Research Institute
  12. Institutional Repository at National Aerospace Laboratories: A Case Study
  13. Enhancing Knowledge Innovation Culture of Libraries through Union Catalogues
  14. Digital Library of ISAC
  15. Digital Collection Building: A Case Study
  16. Digital Library of India: A Testbed for Indian Language Research
  17. Index

It doesn't appear that there is an OA edition of the book, although there is a detailed, OA overview