Volume : III, Issue : III, March - 2014

Open Access Institutional Repositories in Malaysia as Registered in Opendoar: A Study

Padma, P, Ramasamy, K

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Purpose: The study reports the functioning of institutional repositories in Malaysia. Various aspects like nature of Institutional repositories (IR), type of open access IR, content types, content language, repository software used, subjects covered, availability of content , preservation and full text re–use policies and their growth rate were analysed. Methodology: OpenDOAR website and the websites of individual institutional repositories were owsed to collect the required data. Findings: 20 Malaysian IRs are registered in openDOAR as on 23/12/2013. All are functional and belong to institutional category. 17 of them have journal articles and 16 of them contain theses and dissertations. 40 % of them have contents in Malay language. 15 of them use Eprints as repository software. 81 % of them have not defined their preservation policies. 19 of them are multidisciplinary in nature. They are born after 2006. Future implications: The study can be further extended to research the individual IRs of Malaysia or a comparison of related IRs of Malaysia.  

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Padma, P, Ramasamy, K Open Access Institutional Repositories in Malaysia as Registered in Opendoar: A Study International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.III, Issue.III March 2014

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