...Rocio Serrano-Vicente; Remedios Melero; Ernest Abadal Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide, through a set of indicators, an overview of the way in which Spanish institutional repositories are run and the services they offer their respective institutions and other users. The selected...

... of accessibility, dissemination, visibility and impact of PhD e-theses deposited in repositories. Design/methodology/approach The study analysed a random sample of 125 PhD e-theses deposited in an OA repository, specifically in the institutional repository (IR) of the University of Salamanca (Gredos...

...Surendran Cherukodan; Humayoon Kabir S Purpose – India occupies second position among the countries that have adopted DSpace open source software for institutional repositories (IRs)/digital libraries (DLs). The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons for DSpace being preferred over other...

...Milan Ojsteršek; Janez Brezovnik; Mojca Kotar; Marko Ferme; Goran Hrovat; Albin Bregant; Mladen Borovič Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a technical perspective when implementing the Slovenian open access infrastructure that consists of four institutional repositories (IRs...

...Mohammad Hanief Bhat Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore various types of research materials in Indian institutional repositories. Design/methodology/approach – The repositories are identified from the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR). The repository sites were...

... facto standard in the domain of syndication protocols (Horincar et al., 2010). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Interoperability protocols Electronic theses and dissertations Institutional repositories Electronic media Transmission control protocol/internet protocols...

...Sarika Sawant Purpose The present study aims to investigate the experience, contribution and opinions of users of respective institutional repositories (IRs) developed in India. Design/methodology/approach The survey method was used. The data collection tool was a web questionnaire, which...

... assistance to those involved in developing IRs. References Barton , M.R. and Waters , M. (2005), Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries , Cambridge, MA , available at: http://dspace.org/implement/leadirs.pdf...