The findings
clearly reveal that Open Access (OA) repositories in the field of Library and
Information Science are gaining momentum worldwide as 99 LI S repositories are
registered in OpenDOAR contributed by many countries. The United States is leading
contributing 1 6 repositories followed by United Kingdom ( 1 2) and Germany (8)
respectively . Most of the repositories were hosted by different academic and research
institutions with a contribution of 77 repositories. In terms of software used by the
corresponding repositories it was found that most of them preferred DSpace (4 1 ),
followed by EPrints ( 1 7). The English was seen as the most preferred language in
terms of language interface, it was found that 74.75% of the repositories has interface
in English language, followed by German and Spanish (9.09% each). While
evaluating the operational status, 8 1 .82% repositories were found operational with
6.06%, broken and 2.02% repositories were found closed respectively . Content-wise
information shows that majority of the repositories archived journal articles (7 0.7 1%)
followed by conference & workshop papers and theses and dissertations (56.5 7%)
each. Patents were found less archived forming only 1 .0 1% of the total archived
content type. Regarding the content submission policy to the repositories, it was
found that a majority of 74 (7 4.75%) repositories have an undefined policy while as
1 3 ( 1 3. 1 3%) repositories have 'defined' policy. The study brings to light status of only
99 repositories registered in the open-DOAR (Directory of open access repositories) as
on March 1 1-1 3, 20 1 3.
KeyT erms: Open Access, Digital Repositories, LI S Repositories
The findings clearly reveal that Open Access (OA) repositories in the field of Library and Information Science are gaining momentum worldwide as 99 LI S repositories are registered in OpenDOAR contributed by many countries. The United States is leading contributing 1 6 repositories followed by United Kingdom ( 1 2) and Germany (8) respectively . Most of the repositories were hosted by different academic and research institutions with a contribution of 77 repositories. In terms of software used by the corresponding repositories it was found that most of them preferred DSpace (4 1 ), followed by EPrints ( 1 7). The English was seen as the most preferred language in terms of language interface, it was found that 74.75% of the repositories has interface in English language, followed by German and Spanish (9.09% each). While evaluating the operational status, 8 1 .82% repositories were found operational with 6.06%, broken and 2.02% repositories were found closed respectively . Content-wise information shows that majority of the repositories archived journal articles (7 0.7 1%) followed by conference & workshop papers and theses and dissertations (56.5 7%) each. Patents were found less archived forming only 1 .0 1% of the total archived content type. Regarding the content submission policy to the repositories, it was found that a majority of 74 (7 4.75%) repositories have an undefined policy while as 1 3 ( 1 3. 1 3%) repositories have 'defined' policy. The study brings to light status of only 99 repositories registered in the open-DOAR (Directory of open access repositories) as on March 1 1-1 3, 20 1 3.KeyT erms: Open Access, Digital Repositories, LI S Repositories
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