A study of Institutional Repositories on Women’s Studies in

India and Canada

The Proposal by Dr. Sarika Sawant, Assistant Professor SHPT School of Library Science, SNDT Women’s

University, Mumbai

Introduction to IR Benefits of IR to Institution Objectives of the proposal Research Methodology Population Data collection steps Scope and limitations Outcomes

Outline

An institutional repository is a digital archive of the intellectual product created by the faculty, research staff, and students of an institution and accessible to end users both within and outside of the institution, with few if any barriers to access.

Institutional Repository

Institutionally defined; Scholarly; Cumulative and perpetual; and Open and interoperable (Crow, 2002)

In other words, the content of an institutional repository is:

A means of increasing visibility and prestige The centralisation and storage of all types

of institutional output, including unpublished or ‘grey’ literature

Support for learning and teaching Standardisation of institutional records

To the institution, an IR offers

The aim of the present study to examine institutional repositories on women studies developed in India and Canada. The objectives are as follows:

To identify institutional repositories in Canada and in India on women’s studies

To know types and number of documents on women’s studies which is part of collection in identified repositories

To identify different areas of women’s studies covered by repositories

To know the use of standard controlled vocabulary in the generation of metadata of such documents

The Proposal

To identify software used in developing IR To know month and year when repositories

became available to authorised users for submission and searching.

To know that documents are submitted by users or by the library

To identify whether repository developers encourage students, researchers and teachers of women’s studies to contribute

The Proposal Cont…

Research Methodology

• Survey research method • Data collection tool will be web

questionnaire: which will be created with the help of software provided by surveymonkey.com

Population

LiteratureSearch Engines

Directories/Archives

CASSIR

BlogsOpen Source

software websites

Educational/Research institutes websites

Mailing lists

Developing questionnaire

Identifying survey software

Designing / setting up web survey questionnaire

Pre-testing of the web questionnaire

Pilot Study

Changes incorporated in questionnaire after pilot study

Data Collection Steps

Data Collection

ction

Data Analysis

Institutional repositories which are in the planning as well as testing phase will be excluded from the study.

The Cross institutional repositories such as DSpace @ INFLIBNET by INFLIBNET are not considered for the study.

Also Subject repositories will be considered for the study.

Institutional repositories which are not in working phase / condition

Scope and Limitation

Report of the findings Database of Institutional repositories on

women’s studies Useful for Women’s Studies Center More…..

The Outcomes

Crow, R. (2002). The case for institutional repositories: a SPARC position paper. Retrieved May 19, 2004, from http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Final_Release_102.pdf

Reference

https://sites.google.com/site/drsarikasawant/about-me/talks-presentations