Setting up an open access digital repository: A case study

Abstract

Setting up of institutional repositories has been gathering momentum in India and many academic and R&D establishments have made it mandatory to set up institutional repositories. This paper briefly details the work that has gone into setting up and configuring the digital repository of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES). The repository has been set up using the free and open source software, GNU Eprints.org (http://eprints.org). Such a repository will not only help in the wider dissemination of the publications that emerge from the projects and programmes supported by the MOES, but it will also serve as an information management system for the ministry.