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The contribution of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) has immensely helped flourish the Indian socio-economic and cultural sectors. The credit goes to the quality of teaching and research pursuits of faculty, curriculum, facilities, scope for research and publication activities, etc., at IITs and IIMs. The IITs and IIMs are active in producing scholarly literature in the form of research projects, research papers, in-house publications etc. But such intellectual literature/output is not fully available in public domain though they are public-funded establishments. Identifying this gap, institutional repositories (IRs), the online platform for archiving and sharing of institutional intellectualcontent, initiated by the IITs and IIMs were explored. The findings of the study show that out of 16 IITs, 8 IITs have initiated IRs and of which 2 are accessible online and 7 on intranet. On the other hand, out of 13 IIMs, IRs of 3 IIMs are accessible online. The paper also highlights the number and type of documents archived, software platforms used for launching the IRs, accessibility and quality of links of the IRs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this paper is to provide practical guidelines of setting up an institutional repository through DSpace open source software. In the electronic publishing age, the demand for information has been growing steadily in all spheres of work. At the same time the concept of access to information at the free of cost in electronic format is gaining momentum. In this direction present paper discussed step by step procedures in building an institutional repository using DSpace including collections. This paper helps in planning to build an IR. It also helps the beginners in understanding the steps to be followed for uploading different file formats to build digital repository to maintain collection with uniformity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Spacenet is a Closed User Group (CUG)-based communication network of Department of Space/Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) catering to a variety of space community needs. It offers wide range potential benefits both to libraries and end-users across the ISRO centres in India. Over a decade, Spacenet has evolved as a community network for the space community in India. The paper explains how the resources various ISRO information centres are shared/utilised, digital libraries (DL) built, accessed, and institutional repositories (IRs) organised among the libraries using Spacenet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]