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Provides an overview of Subject Repositories (SRs) throughout the World in response to the open access movement (OAM). It mainly highlights the current trends of repository development in Library and Information Science (LIS) field. This paper covers all repositories in LIS field as registered in OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repository) database. The main objective of the paper is to select a set of parameters for evaluation of LIS repositories with other disciplinary repositories taking into consideration global recommendations and best practice guidelines. The paper also shows the growth of selected LIS repositories in terms of volume and number of objects, contents type, software pattern, subjects coverage etc. Lastly points out lacunas of LIS repositories in compare to other disciplinary repositories as well as recommends possible directions which can make the repository sustainable and will change the culture of information exchange pattern in the social science disciplines as a whole.
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The paper also shows the growth of selected LIS repositories in terms of volume and number of objects, contents type, software pattern, subjects coverage etc.
Keywords: open access, self-archiving, digital library, institutional repository, subject repository, library and information science.
Now, repositories are being maintained in different subjects such as in agriculture (Roy, Biswas & Mukhopadhyay, 2016a, 2016b) and library and information science (Ganaie et al.
g. projects like UGC-Infonet, Shodhganga, National Digital Library at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur etc) in open access (OA) are getting recognitions from different countries and Indian Government has developed policies to support OA (Roy, Biswas & Mukhopadhyay, 2012b, 2016d; UGC, 2005; Bangalore Declaration, 2006; NKC, 2007; DBT & DST, 2014).
Roy & Mukhopadhyay (2011) advocated for repositories in LIS discipline for various reasons i) widening access of LIS literature,’ ii) supporting community and promoting sharin g & reuse of open access contents, iii) helping to identify experts in the LIS field, iv) alerting about latest developments in courses, v) increasing the quality of content as well as research outputs, vi) improvin g global access to local research and, vii) ability to serve a large number of scholars at a potentiall y reduced cost.
Several recommendations and best practice guidelines (DINI, 2003; OpenAIRE, 201 I ; RECODE, 2014) at national and international levels were consulted in order to identify technical and socio-technical issues related to OARs. It was followed by selection and settings of key parameters for evaluation of LIS repositories on the basis of global recommendations.
Current trends of the open access digital repositories in library and information science.