Findings
Institutional Repositories are intellectual assets of an
institution that capture, organize, preserve, and disseminate
the scholarly output on a single window. The basic
objective of an IR is to promote wider use of the intellectual
output of an institution. According to Vij and Soni
(2009), a repository can include a virtually unlimited
variety of materials that enhance scholarly communication
and can support the educational goals of the Institution.
The contents of the repository usually include preprints (an
article manuscript posted by the author before journal
acceptance) and post-prints (the author’s final edited
manuscript), monographs and other ancillary research
material like conference papers, electronic theses and
dissertations, technical reports, white papers, etc. Special
libraries, including those in academic institutions, are at
the forefront to break down the barriers that divide traditional
decentralized units and are committed to fulfilling
their role of knowledge dissemination by implementing and
promoting wider use of IRs. The purpose of this study is to
explore the benefits of IRs, to identify users’ views on
deposition of research output, and to find the incentives for
users and policies to be adopted regarding IRs by special
libraries. The major findings of the study aree