| dc.description.abstract | In this electronic publishing age, academic institutions including
universities have increasingly recognized that an institutional repository
(IR) is an essential infrastructure for scholarly dissemination. An IR is a
digital research archive consisting of accessible collections of scholarly
work that represent the intellectual capital of an institution. It is a means
for institutions to manage the digital scholarship their communities
produce, maximize access to research outputs both before and after
publication and also to increase the visibility and academic prestige of
both the institution and authors. MBRU Research Repository is developed
to collect, preserve and make accessible the digital content produced by
students, faculty and staff of MBRU and maximize the value of existing
educational digital content through implementation of long term digital
preservation strategy and solution. A strategic planning is required before developing IR, several meetings
were held between the library team and technology team for project
planning focused mainly on infrastructural requirement, manpower,
developing policy & guidelines, software selection, financial aspects,
content selection and monitoring the implementation. Software selection is a crtical element in IR project. Library technology
team had done market study and research on different solutions available
for IR. MBRU Smart Services team worked closely with the library to ensure
the appropriate software selection and to meet the technical requirement
for the project implementation. | en_US |
