Rationale of institutional repository categories and IR development challenges in India

Library Review

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 394-417

  Balaji Babu, Preedip ^a   Santosh Kumar, Kadari ^b   Shewale, Nilesh A ^c   Singh, Abhinav K ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Institute of Management Technology   (India)

^c DON BOSCO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Categorization; India; Institutional repositories; Open access; Scholarly communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868023373     PISSN: 00242535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00242531211284320     Document Type: Article

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