Institutional repositories in South Asian Countries

a study on trends and development

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https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2014.v8n1e2.10.p202

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Institutional Repositories, Software, Languages, Contents

Abstract

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.

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  • S. Dhanavandan

    O Laboratório Editorial foi instituído com o objetivo de criar condições e oportunidades para a difusão de pesquisas e tornar públicos os resultados dos trabalhos do corpo docente da FFC. Constitui-se num órgão adjunto à Diretoria da FFC e vinculado à SAEPE, com o apoio da Seção Gráfica, da Diretoria, da Biblioteca, e das Seções de Finanças, Compras e Técnica Acadêmica. A função do Laboratório Editorial é a de assessorar, planejar, realizar e distribuir livros, periódicos e outras publicações elaboradas na FFC.

    E-mail: labeditorial@marilia.unesp.br 

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Published

2014-12-05

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Vol. 8 No. 1/2 (2014)

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Dhanavandan , S., and M. Tamizhchelvan. “Institutional Repositories in South Asian Countries: A Study on Trends and Development”. Brazilian Journal of Information Science: Research Trends, vol. 8, no. 1/2, Dec. 2014, https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2014.v8n1e2.10.p202.