Summary and conclusions
The study was taken up to identify various benefits and
incentives of IRs by special libraries in the National Capital
Region of India. This study also aims to examine the satisfaction
level of users with respect to IR benefits, and to
identify what policies are to be adopted for the success of
IRs. Another objective of the study is to identify academic
incentives to be given to authors to encourage publication
in IRs. While not disputing the superior quality of scholarly
journals and books published after a double blind refereeing
process, the study brings out the potential benefits of
publication in IRs. The study focuses on complementary
aspect of publication in journals and deposition in IRs. In no
way are we concluding that publishing research output in
IRs should be viewed as competitive to publication in
journals. Rather, we conclude that IRs need to be encouraged
for wider readership of publication and qualitative
improvement of research output which enhances the
possibility of getting it published in refereed journals.
Results of the study are based on 496 users of nine
libraries. Based on the finding of the study, we conclude
that deposition of research output in IR is user dependent.
We also find that two major incentives that have emerged
important for posting research output in IRs are the Quality
Aspect and Wider Readership. Finally, we conclude that
institutions need to follow appropriate policies related to
Quality and Copyright issues and Academic Value of
research output for effective implementation of IRs.