Role of Institutional Repository to Promote the Open Access Policy

a study on central institutional repositories of CSIR, ICAR and DST-DBT

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to discuss the role of institutional repository (IR) to promote the open access (OA) policy by analysing the OA policy of CSIR, ICAR and DST-DBT and their central IRs. For this study, chiefly thematic analysis with a combination of the inductive and latent approaches has been used. The evidence-based approach and content analysis have also been incorporated to fulfil the stated purpose of this study. It is found that maximum emphasis has been given to setting up of IRs by OA policies. CSIR, ICAR and DST-DBT have published their OA policy where the role of IRs are playing a pivotal role to implement the OA policy. This study presents the iconic relationship between OA policy and IR. In this way, the value of IR has been highlighted to promote the OA policy.