Neena Singh
G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttrakhand, Republic of India
The Universities and Institutes of Higher Education and Research has vast intellectual and scholarly research information of student scholarship in form of theses and dissertations, besides other gray literature that usually remains unused or underutilized due restricted access in physical form. Institutional repositories paves the way to hold these valuable information and provides unrestricted Open Access to these valuable research content and maximizes research impact making research more productive. This article discusses the creation and developments of Digital Repository of the first Indian Agricultural University of the country and looks into the transitions made from print Theses and Dissertations (TD) into digital formats, its accessibility and management.
Part of the book: Aspects of Digital Libraries