Open AccessInstitutional repositories in South Asian Countries
Author(s) -
S. Dhanavandan,
M. Tamizhchelvan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
brazilian journal of information science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1981-1640
DOI - 10.36311/1981-1640.2014.v8n1e2.10.p202
Subject(s) - sri lanka , south asia , geography , records management , socioeconomics , business , political science , library science , ancient history , history , computer science , economics
This paper discussed about the trends and development Institutional Repository (IR) in south Asian countries. And it further deals about the name of the repositories, size, type, content and languages and various software. South Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have institutional repositories in their respective libraries but Bhutan and Maldives are not having any repositories. Among the 75 institutional repositories it has 3, 46,785 records which consists of 321435(92.69%) records in India, 8540 (2.46%) in Bangladesh, 10027(2.89%) records in Pakistan, 6688(1.93%) records in Sri Lanka and 95(0.03%) records in Nepal.