An Evaluation of Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories in India

Evaluating the University of North Texas' Digital Collections and Institutional Repository: An Exploratory Assessment of Stakeholder Perceptions and Use

“…IR managers during the repositioning process were encouraged to also seek alternate content types for inclusion in the IR, strengthen metadata, and review the IR technical infrastructure to more robustly support existing IR content. Tripathi and Jeevan (2011) found similar results in India, where institutional repositories faced a huge problem with low quantities of scholarly submissions from researchers. An investigation of Malaysian repositories supports this finding, but suggests that when librarians take an active role in repository collection development and marketing, the number of submissions improves (Kamraninia and Abrizah, 2010).…”

Evaluating digital libraries: a systematised review

“…As Figure suggests, the majority of studies were focused on evaluating the quality of digital libraries’ services from the perspective of the users (Ahmad & Abawajy, ; Amannollahi‐Nik, Alipoorhafezi & Matlabi, ; Amini, ; Garibay, Gutiérrez & Figueroa, ; Helena Vinagre, Gaspar Pinto & Ochôa, ; Jafar‐Begloo, Hamidi, Anvari & Rouhani, ; Kyrillidou & Giersch, ; Lai, Chiu, Huang, Chen & Huang, ; Moreira, Gonçalves, Laender & Fox, ; Naiej, Noroozi & Hamidi, ; Sohrabi, Farzaneh & Reisi, ; Yousefzadeh‐Najdi, ). The second most frequent focus of research was on digital libraries as a whole (including analysing the various aspects of digital libraries) (Al‐Dini, ; Cemal, Doğan, Özlem & Sacit, ; Fuhr et al., ; Górny, Catlow & Mazurek, ; Hoe‐Lian Goh et al., ; Jose, ; Masoudnia & Ali‐Ebadi, ; Tripathi & Jeevan, ; Xie, , ). Studies are conducted to:…”

Measuring the gap between perceived importance and actual performance of institutional repositories

“…Markey, Rieh, St. Jean, Yakel, and Yao (2009, May 19) emphasize that service is an internal critical success factor in IRs. Tripathi and Jeevan (2011) suggest that users must be educated as to intellectual property rights issues so that IR services can achieve success by being rights-compliant. Thibodeau (2007) stated that the success of an IR will ultimately be determined by the use of the collection, and Sawant (2012) similarly indicated that users are one of the important factors of the long-term survival of IRs.…”

“…Universities and other research organizations worldwide are spending large amounts of money to establish digital libraries and institutional repositories (Tripathi & Jeevan, 2011). However, low success rates have been reported for IRs.…”