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An Institutional Repository for Undergraduate Students: a Case Study at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi (India)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2013

Raj Kumar Bhardwaj  and
Shikha Kaushik
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Abstract

In a previous article for LIM, Raj Kumar Bhardwaj wrote about online legal information services and their uses at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.1 This new article looks at Institutional Repositories (IRs) which in the academic world, help to re-define the production, dissemination and the use of the intellectual output from an institution. A project to develop an IR offers numerous opportunities to become engaged with information and scholarly material beyond the nature of traditional library services. In this paper, Raj Kumar Bhardwaj and Shikha Kaushik jointly discuss some of the issues, experiences and theories around the institutional repository that has been developed at St Stephen's College.

Keywords

institutional repositoriesacademic librariesIndia
Type
International Perspectives
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 52 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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