Institutional Repositories: Assessing their Values to the Academic Community in the College Libraries in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu

S. Ram Kumar; S. Srinivasa Ragavan

doi:10.51983/ajist-2013.3.1.2609

Authors

S. Ram Kumar Central Library, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - 641 046, Tamil Nadu, India
S. Srinivasa Ragavan Librarian & Head, DLIS, Bharathidasan University, Trichy - 620 024, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ajist-2013.3.1.2609

Keywords:

Institutional Repositories, Digital Repositories

Abstract

Institutional repositories can provide an immediate and valuable complement to the existing scholarly publishing model, while stimulating innovation in a new disaggregated publishing structure that will evolve and improve over time. This paper describes about the study on the Institutional repositories and assessing their values to the academic community in the College Libraries in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu.

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