but next also for a while it not have in providing suitable services to its patrons. But Institutional Repository is reasonably cheaper and offers the improved services to library user. Definition Several professionals in the discipline have defined Information Repository. According to Crow (2002) “an institutional repository is an electronic documentation of the scholar product made by the research staff, faculty and students of an organization and available to end patrons both inside and outside of the organization with few obstructions if any to access”. Walker and Barton (2003) that “An electronic repository is considered to preserve, host manage and facilitate sharing of the intellectual productivity of institutional faculty”. The Institutional Repository requires the following features The IR should have OAI facilities so that the user can get required information as and when required. IR should have easy submission and registration of document by researcher and faculty members. It should provide easy browsing, searching facility, import&export and it should be accessibility on internet. It should be sustainable and trustworthy and should preserve the data for long range service. IR facilities should be started by the library but the basic motivate of it to grow in content through the self archiving by the creator of article. IR should provide worldwide facilities to the users. Objectives The collection and preservation document should be OAI for the researcher, faculty and staff. To facilitate improved access of all the literate research publication. It helps the teachers and learners to use the digital content and also applies the 4th law of the library science given by S.R Ranganathan. It provides interface between user and digital content. It cross-repository service is also being used for OAI services. To help in storing, archiving and sharing resources. Crow Identifies the following elements has been for the Institutional Repositories Institutionally: It refers to the intellectual assets of the institution. The institution means an organization or place where intellectual assets are generated. These intellectual assets are generated by its staff, faculty members and students.
Scholarly: It refers to the content of the repository such as reprint, pear reviewed articles, monograph, enduring teaching material, conference papers, electronic thesis and dissertation and gray literature etc. Cumulative and Perpetual: It refers to the collection of the contents and long time preservation for the perpetual access scholarly contents. Open and Interoperability: It refers to the open access of the contents and searching facility of the repository which provides interoperability of the content. Process for Establishing an Institutional Repository: Table 1: Process for Establishing an Institutional Repository 1. Feasibility 2. Design and development of a flow diagram 3. Selection of hardware and software 4. Installation of hardware and software 5. Testing of hardware and software 6. Content management 7. Creation of digital collection 8. Archiving and preservation (By self archiving or by staff) 9. Sharing or dissemination 10. Administration Feasibility study: The feasibility study is basically test of the proposed system in the light of its workability, meeting user’s requirements, effective use of resources and of course the cost effectiveness. There are 3 aspects in the feasibility study portion of the preliminary investigation or technical feasibility, economic feasibility and operational feasibility. Design and development of a work flow diagram: In this we will design and analysis a system through which the whole operation of the IR will work. Selection of hardware and software: The hardware and software or IR will be decided which suit it better and can provide proper information as and when required by the potential users. Installation of hardware and software: In this earlier stage of the process we will select the appropriate hardware and software after now we will install the most appropriate software