Institutional Repositories for Open Access in Open Doar Used Dspace Software: A Global Perspective Kumar Y. Umesh1*, Amsaveni N.2 1Associate professor & Head, Dept. of Library and Information Centre, Hasanath College for Women, Bengaluru-42. Karnataka 2Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University, Trichy-24, Tamilnadu *Corresponding Author: Y. Umesh Kumar, umeshkumary@yahoo.com
Online published on 13 April, 2022. Abstract Repositories and helps to extend the liberal traditions of information access. There are various open-source software available on the web with a diverse range of features and capabilities and are used by different Institutional, Disciplinary, Aggregating, and Governmental Repositories. D-Space and E-Prints were widely used open-source software for institutional repositories, and prospective users sometimes wonder which one to adopt. The aims of these are very different, although their domains of application do overlap. The paper also describes and summarises the comparative study of prominently used open-source software and its usage in Open DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories). Top Keywords Open Access, Institutional Repositories, Software, DSpace, Content Subject, Repository Types, DOAR. Top |