International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Collection Development and Organization in Institutional Digital Repositories: From Policy to Practice

Document Type : Articles

Authors

Bijan Kumar Roy 1
Subal Chandra Biswas 2
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay 3

1 University of Calcutta- Library and Information Science, Associate Professor – India

2 The University of Burdwan - Library and Information Science, Professor {Retired}- India

3 University of Kalyani- Library and Information Science, Professor – India

Abstract
This paper analyzes open access (OA) self-archiving policies of open access repositories of different organizations registered in OpenDOAR, ROAR, and ROARMAP databases. The policies relating to content policies, collection organization policies, metadata policies, submission policies, and multilingual policies, are required to be correctly formulated for the smooth functioning of any repository system on a global scale. The objective is to recommend institute-specific model policy with global recommendations and best practices. The methodology is twofold – first, to get an overview of policy issues as reflected in existing literature, and second, to analyze policy issues recorded in global registries and individual repositories. It was found that most of the organizations do not have a stated policy. Even within a specific policy, several key issues were missing. The outcomes of this research paper may help future researchers by providing a roadmap towards the successful policy implementation of open access repositories (OARs) in higher academic institutions. The paper may be helpful to the library professionals in devising institute-specific policy and may be a guiding tool to the policymakers.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.1.2.5

Keywords

Open access repository
Digital library
digital repository
digital archive
Open access
self-archiving policy

  • Receive Date 14 December 2021
  • Accept Date 03 December 2022

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