International Journal of Information Studies & Libraries

Atasi Sinhababu ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, IN

Abstract

Literature reviews are systematic syntheses of previous work around a particular topic. Nearly all scholars have written literature reviews at some point; such reviews are common requirements for academic writings, are often the first section of empirical papers, and are sometimes written to summarize a field of study. Given the increasing amount of literature in many fields, reviews are critical in synthesizing scientific knowledge. A literature review is a systematic explicit and reproductive method for identifying evaluating and interpreting the existing body of recorded work produced by researcher's scholars and practitioners. (Fink, 1998, p.3).

The review of the literature for this study focuses on virtual reference service (aka digital reference service) as discussed by different authors in their scholarly writings. The emphasis has been made to cover the scope, research methodology, major findings, and suggestions or recommendations put forward by the authors.

Keywords

Virtual Reference Service (VRS), Digital Reference Service (DRS), RUSA, Review of Literature.

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Atasi Sinhababu ¹, Heenam Gakhar ², Rupak Chakravarty ³

Affiliations
1 Assistant Librarian, Central Library, Amity University Punjab, Mohali, Punjab., IN
2 DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh., IN
3 Professor, DLIS, Panjab University, Chandigarh., IN

Abstract

Owing to the prevailing ‘unfair’ digital divide, libraries worldwide are unable to build and manage institutional repositories for preserving and sharing the research output of academia. This paper evaluates and demonstrates how libraries can practically harness the completely free SaaS service model based on public cloud deployment model infrastructure to fill this divide and achieve the larger goal of open science. The paper highlights the process and steps of using Zenodo, a FREE and OPEN platform, powered by Invenio (Free Open-Source Software) RDM infrastructure, to establish a trusted repository with the provision of self-archiving. To test the KPIs and functionalities, a live online community ‘dlispu’ was built on the Zenodo platform and the archiving process was executed. The findings of the study reveal that libraries can easily adopt Green Open Access, thus strengthening the scholarly communication cycle without any upfront and subsequent cost. This immediately outweighs the limitations of the digital divide. The positive outcomes of the study pave the way for the libraries with resource insufficiencies in making research more findable, shareable, and reproducible, with confidence. The findings of the study also reveal that the Zenodo repository is a OAI-PMH-compliant repository supporting metadata harvesting and interoperability.

Keywords

Invenio; Zenodo; FOSS; Open Access; OAI-PMH; Self-Archiving; Curation CC-Licenses; DOI; Community; FAIR; IR (Institutional Repository)

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