TNPESU LIBRARY REPOSITORY

Institutional Repository (IR) disseminates a rich source of digitized materials drafted and published by learned societies. In India, major R&D institutes and academic institutes provide an institutional repository (IR) service to their clientele. This IR technology offers the faculties and researchers to deposit their work, which facilitates the target audience to access the research publications via digital form. It is stated that most of the institutes adopt the open source IR software’s for creating/developing their own repositories. It is found that major documents deposited in the institutional repository are theses, dissertations, conference papers, journal articles, reports, patents, etc.

Definition:

Clifford Lynch defined an institutional repository as "a university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.
There can be no doubt that a growing number of academic libraries are also collecting, organizing, and disseminating the intellectual output of their parent institutions. This body of campus-born work stems from both learning and research programs; it is voluminous and diverse and needs to be managed well for the long-term. To meet the challenge, institutional repositories (IRs), where these items are held, organized, and accessed, are proliferating at a great rate.

A university’s digital intellectual output includes a diverse body of items, such as:

• annual reports
• computer programs
• conference papers
• data sets,
• learning/complex objects (digitally captured courses, multimedia simulations/visualizations, captured notes of faculty and students, etc.),
• lecture series materials,
• models,
• pre-prints/post-prints,
• proceedings,
• research reports,
• simulations/visualizations,
• technical reports and working papers,
• web pages,
and
• white papers. Libraries will increasingly build information systems to organize, preserve, and provide access to these kinds of resources.

Institutional repository is now becoming a platform for sharing of knowledge.
Academic Libraries receive documents from COE, Registrar, Hod’s, faculties, scholars, principals of affiliated colleges, and external agencies. These documents have been digitized and included in the repository for future reference. This page disseminates the Digitized information under several headings. All the documents are clearly categorized, properly indexed, and well organized for archival and dissemination purposes. Members, Non Members and General Public can access the documents available in the institutional repository.

OBJECTIVE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY:

The four main objectives of an academic institutional repository are:

• To create global visibility for an institution's scholarship;
• To collect content in a single location;
• To provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving;
• To store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ("grey") literature (e.g., theses or technical reports).

To fulfil the Open Archives Initiative and to have wide access to the academic contents deposited for reference, this University Library has archived certain documents in digital form. And that document was included in the Institutional Repository.