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Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content growth of institutional repositories (IR) in South India and analyse the type-wise growth of items available in these IRs and also discuss the traits and trends exposed by them. With the help of Registry of Open Access Repositories and Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR), 39 repositories were located in south India. From these, Personal websites, the IRs that are currently not working and the repositories used for journal archiving were excluded. A total of 22 operational IRs at 21 institutions were identified for the study. Within a 15 month period, the data were collected from the 22 IRs twice for monitoring content growth. The content of nearly all IRs have grown over the 15 month period, and the overall content growth rate was 7.82 per cent. Journal articles were the important content type of IRs, while thesis and conference papers were the next common. Moreover, item monographs exhibited the highest growth rate. Other categories, conference proceedings, and conference papers also exhibited a high growth rate. The present study revealed that Indian repositories were actively engaged in data curation activities, depositing a wide variety of items in their respective IRs. Overall, South Indian repositories exhibited a slow growth rate and tended to become inactive. Most South Indian Universities had not constituted the IRs, which led to the dominance of English language material in these IRs. The study was conducted only in South Indian IRs. This is the first study in India, attempting to determine the type-wise growth of items in IRs. Emerald allows authors to deposit their AAM under the Creative Commons Attribution Non- commercial International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/5570 |
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Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to identify the digital curation practices in Institutional Repositories (IRs) in South India. A voluntary survey was conducted among the IR managers of 23 South Indian IRs, and the response rate was 87%. This study found that the active participation of South Indian IRs was only seen in a few digital curation activities. However, Of the 33 digital curation activities analyzed, the active participation of IRs was only seen in ten digital curation activities. The performance of preservation activities was extremely low, and disagreements were recorded by the survey participants towards several digital curation activities. The most disagreed digital curation activities were emulation and cease data curation. All the participants had assigned metadata and allowed file download in their IRs. Raman Research Institute had provided a good number of digital curation services in their IR. This is an in-depth study investigating the digital curation practice currently underway in South Indian IRs, and the researcher could not find similar studies in this niche. Emerald allows authors to deposit their AAM under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-10-2019-0125 |
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