Chapter 2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE - Shodhganga@INFLIBNET ...

2.1 IR Development and Management
Chapter 2: Review of Literature
Literature on IR Development and Management could be largely divided into studies
as follows:
2.1.1. Scholarly communication
2.1.2. Open access movement
2.1.3. Concept of Institutional Repository
2.1.4. Issues of IRs / Basic components of IR
a) Timeline
b) Exploratory activities
c) Anticipated benefits
d) Management
e) Contributors
f) IR System / Software
g) Number, types and rate of growth of digital documents
h) Inhibiting factors
2.1.1 Scholarly Communication
A few studies specifically related to scholarly communication were located. The
significant article by Van de Sompel, Payette, Erickson, Lagoze, and Warner (2004)
explored characteristics of the established scholarly communication system, and
observed emerging trends after studying changing nature of research. They tried to
distill some core characteristics of a future scholarly communication system.
Pöschl (2004) discussed the failure of traditional journal publishing and peer review
to provide efficient scientific exchange and quality assurance in today‘s highly
diverse world of science. He also proposed the most promising way to improve
matters is a two-stage (or multi-stage) publication processes with interactive peer
review and public discussion in new and traditional scientific journals.
Several studies explained how an IR would be a new strategy for facilitating changes
in electronic scholarly communication (Chan, 2004; Crow, 2002; Lynch, 2003;
Shearer, 2003).
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