Status of institutional repository in Sri Lanka: an analytical study

Abstract

This paper highlights on the growth and development of Institutional repositories of Asian countries particularly in Sri Lanka.This paper also examines the usage of institutional repositories in Sri Lanka. The data for the study has been collected from the website of respective institutions in Sri Lanka. The study analyzed the Communities and Sub Communities, Contribution of authors of the institutional repositories in Sri Lanka. The study found out that, the awareness among the usage of Institutional Repositories in the Sri Lanka is less among the faculty members and research scholars, hence it was recommended from the study that more training programmes should be initiated to create awareness for using Institutional Repositories in Sri Lanka.