Faculty members and Research scholars in the study
who do use IRs are Most satisfied with potential bene-
fits of IR while a relatively higher percentage of
Students fall in the Satisfied category. The benefits of
IRs, considered in the study, are- IR is rich reservoir of
institutional academic intellectual output; IR should
focus on making research output available through
open access; There should be a clear understanding
between IR and faculty to enhance the usage of
scholarly communication; IR systems should support
interoperability in order to provide access via multiple
search engines and discovery tools and IRs capture and
preserve the intellectual output of the institution for
a long time. Note that most Faculty members and
Research scholars in this study indicated that they do
not publish their research in IRs.
2) Results of the study suggest that the first preference of
depositing publications among Students (younger
researchers) is IR as a comparatively large percentage
of Students preferred to publish their research output
in IRs. On the other hand, a much higher percentage of
established researchers in this study (53.42% of Faculty
members and nearly 67% of Research scholars) do not
publish their research work in IRs at all.
3) Authors’ needs for academic incentives to publish in IRs
can be broadly categorized under two groups: Wider
Readership and Quality aspect of research output.
4) Findings, based on advanced statistical techniques,
suggest that institutions need to give due attention to
policies related to two aspects of publication, namely:
Quality and copyright issues and Academic value of
research output. Quality and copyright issues consist of
Peer reviewed and Protection from plagiarism, while
Academic Value encompass No alterations, Can be
referred in other publication with due acknowledgement,
Inclusion in indexing system for retrieval, Interoperability
with other IRs, and Permanent storage.