Adoption of DSpace by Indian libraries

Q Social Sciences

Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems Pub Date : 2016-03-21 DOI:10.1108/PROG-08-2014-0059

Surendran Cherukodan, S. HumayoonKabir

引用次数: 3

Abstract

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 software. It inspects various instances of Indian web-based DSpace systems including the nature and growth of collection, the geographical distribution of DSpace systems and the types of institutions that adopt and maintain DSpace. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from the official website of DSpace, Google search and from online discussion forums during July 2013 to January 2014. The 132 Indian DSpace links provided in the official DSpace website were examined. Further search was carried out on Google to identify Indian IRs and DLs that are not listed by the official website. A list of Indian DSpace websites prepared by the authors was sent to the online discussion forums for further updating. An online directory of Indian DSpace web...

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印度图书馆采用DSpace

目的-印度在采用DSpace开源软件用于机构存储库(IRs)/数字图书馆(dl)的国家中排名第二。本文的目的是研究DSpace比其他软件更受欢迎的原因。它考察了印度基于网络的数字空间系统的各种实例，包括收集的性质和增长、数字空间系统的地理分布以及采用和维护数字空间的机构类型。设计/方法/方法-数据收集自2013年7月至2014年1月期间的DSpace官方网站、谷歌搜索和在线论坛。对官方DSpace网站提供的132个印度DSpace链接进行了检查。在谷歌上进行了进一步的搜索，以确定没有在官方网站上列出的印度ir和dl。作者准备的印度DSpace网站列表已发送到在线论坛以进一步更新。印度DSpace网站的在线目录…

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Program-Electronic Library and Information Systems 工程技术-计算机：信息系统

CiteScore

1.30

自引率

0.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： ■Automation of library and information services ■Storage and retrieval of all forms of electronic information ■Delivery of information to end users ■Database design and management ■Techniques for storing and distributing information ■Networking and communications technology ■The Internet ■User interface design ■Procurement of systems ■User training and support ■System evaluation