Content growth of institutional repositories in South India: a status report

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content growth of institutional repositories (IR) in India and analyse the type-wise growth of items available in these IRs and also discuss the and trends exposed by them. the help of Registry of Open Access Repositories and Directory of Open Access (OpenDOAR), 39 repositories were located in south India. From these, Personal, the IRs that are currently not working and the repositories used for journal archiving excluded. A total of 22 operational IRs at 21 institutions were identified for the study. a 15 month period, the data were collected from the 22 IRs twice for monitoring content. content of nearly all IRs have grown over the 15 month period, and the overall content rate was 7.82 per cent. Journal articles were the important content type of IRs, while and conference papers were the next common. Moreover, item monographs exhibited the growth rate. Other categories, conference proceedings, and conference papers also a high growth rate. The present study revealed that Indian repositories were actively in data curation activities, depositing a wide variety of items in their respective IRs., South Indian repositories exhibited a slow growth rate and tended to become inactive. South Indian Universities had not constituted the IRs, which led to the dominance of language material in these IRs. study was conducted only in South Indian IRs. is the first study in India, attempting to determine the type-wise growth of items in IRs. allows authors to deposit their AAM under the Creative Commons Attribution Non- International Licence 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0).