Global analysis of Repositories in 'Library and Information Science' in OpenDOAR

Abstract

This paper discusses the availability of the Repositories for subject ‘Library and Information Science’ in the World which are registered in OpenDOAR. And it further deals about the repositories by continents, organisation by continent, type, content and languages and various software. totally 126 repositories available which consists of 60 in Europe, 26 in Asia, 19 in North America, 6 from South America,10 from Africa, 4 from Australia and one repository in Caribbean. And also the minimum numbers of repositories are in ‘Governmental’ type repository. 55 repositories are used DSpace and 23 repositories are used EPrints software. Among the repositories, 30 repositories are having nearly 50000 numbers of records.