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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]

The growth of electronic repositories (e-repositories) has been found remarkable in facilitating global open access to legal scholarship. Legal repositories are evolved as reference tool by the law schools to manage legal scholarship, working paper series, peer reviewed articles and other kinds of learning objects. These kinds of services; developed over a decade, improve the visibility and sustainability of scholarly produced literature, and help in winding information gaps between information rich and information poor researchers.The article traces the initiatives in support of open access to scholarly literature and examines how e-repositories improve communication access and bridges channels for legal scholarship. The article finds that certain primary crucial points like policy and standards, perceivable formats, accessibility and management of rights for digital materials, economic facts should be considered before implementing e-repositories. The study concludes that internationally there are number of initiatives supporting institutional and disciplinary repositories in support of legal scholarship, but lack in developing countries like India where no single law institution has approached the repository route of open access publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]