Institutional Digital Repositories

Government Degree College, Zaheerabad Library's Institutional Repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies or contents of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly faculty members of this institution.

This institutional repository can be viewed as "a set of services that a College offers to members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials, You Tube Lectures created by the teaching staff of the institution and its community members."such as monographs, eprints of academic journal articles—both before (preprints) and after (postprints) undergoing peer review—as well as electronic theses and dissertations. An institutional repository might also include other digital assets generated by academics, such as datasets, administrative documents, course notes, Question Papers, learning objects, or conference proceedings. Deposit of material in an institutional repository is sometimes mandated by that institution.

Some of the main objectives for having an institutional repository are to provide open access to institutional research output by self-archiving in an open access repository, to create global visibility for an institution's scholarly research, and to store and preserve other institutional digital assets, including unpublished or otherwise easily lost ("grey") literature such as theses, working papers or technical reports.