Digital Library and Institutional Repository: Mechanisms for Digital Information Management

Paper presented on 'Digital Library and Institutional Repository: Mechanisms for Digital Information Management" at the National Conference on Digital Library Management and Challenges. Organized by ACCMAN institute of Management, Greater Noida, INDIA. November 19, 2011

Abstract

Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories are two most effective mechanisms to organize and manage digital information. This paper discusses the digital libraries (DL) and institutional repositories (IR) from its definition to implementations and best practices in India and other countries. Special focus has been given to open sources software used to create DL and IRs. Features, advantages and disadvantages of both DL and IR are discussed. A brief introduction to some of the world digital libraries like WDL, EL, ADL, and NOAA Photo library are given. Some important Indian digital libraries like DLI, NSDL, TKDL and NALANDA are introduced.  International institutional repositories like SSRN, ArXive, NASA ADS and CERN are studied. The study also shed light to Indian repositories like ePrint@IISc, OpenMed, NIODL, RRIP and NAL-IR.

Keywords: Digital Library, Institutional Repository, Open Source Software,

The paper is published by Asian Books, New Delhi. Bibliographic details:       Musthafa, M and Ghalibeen, S (2011). Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories: Mechanisms for digital information management. In Satyaprakash Singh (Ed) Digital Library Management and Challenges. New Delhi: Asian Books, pp 106-118. ISBN 978-81-8412-102-5