Institutional Digital Repository:towards developing a policy framework

ISBN-13: 9786203855692 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str.

Bijan Kumar Roy

Opis

Due to the advancement of information and communication technologies specially Internet and WWW, our traditional publishing system has changed and new open access publishing system has emerged. Institutional digital repository has emerged as a new publishing platform to the academic community. The objective of this work is to discuss different open access publishing model along with different initiatives taken at national and international level for the development of IDR. It also discusses different policy issues related to the development of IDR at global level. Finally, it suggests different policies based on international guidelines and best practices.

O autorze

Roy, Bijan Kumar Dr. Bijan Kumar Roy is currently working as Associate Professor in the department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. His area of interest includes : Open source software, open access, institutional digital repository, open access policy etc.