Benefits of Institutional & Collaborative Repositories Development in Academic Libraries

The paper deals with the concept of Institutional repositories, explains the need for establishment of repositories by academic libraries. Especially the university libraries, which are meant for catering the higher academic needs of researchers and teachers, have to procure books on diverse subjects and their serial holdings is also very large. Even the so-called large libraries are also finding it difficult to manage their overcrowded stacks which have resulted from an increase in scholarly publishing and the high cost of traditional library buildings. All this have made the repository an attractive option.Â