Developing Open Access Institutional Digital Repository Using Open Source Software: A Step by Step Guide
- Authors: Bijan Kumar Roy, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, Subal Chandra Biswas and Rajesh Das
Reports the designing and development of an open access (OA) institutional digital repository (IDR) model (BURA – Burdwan University Research Archive) using DSpace software (http://www.dspace.org/). Describes various steps involved in administering DSpace like creating and maintaining Communities, Sub-communities and Collections under community/sub-community etc. Also demonstrates different steps involved in submission process and proposes incorporation of subject access system (here DDC- Dewey Decimal Classification) in IDR system to fulfill the subject approach of the users.
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