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Institutional Repository:An Effective Tool for Knowledge Management


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The paper explores the Institutional Repository as an indispensable tool for knowledge management process. It also tries to reestablish Dr. S.R. Ranganathans' philosophy of knowledge generation, evaluation and utilization especially of nascent micro thoughts and its mechanism in contemporary digital arena. The paper includes concepts, definitions and types of knowledge and KM and IR. It provides criteria, structural design and functions of IR including HRM and IR application Management. It emphasizes that IR can be an effective tool for KM in higher learning institutes and universities with the help of the latest IR software and its peripheral technology.

Keywords

Knowledge Management, Institutional Repository.
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Urmila Thaker
Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388120, Gujarat
India

Nimesh Oza
Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388120, Gujarat
India


Notifications

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  • Branin (J J). Institutional repositories, In Drake, M A Ed, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC). 2005, p237-248. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/441

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository

  • Jones Richard (Andrew Theo); MacColl John. The Institutional Repository (Chandos; Oxford), 2006, p53.

  • http://knowledgecommission.gov.in/downloads/documents/wg_open_course.pdf


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Authors

Urmila Thaker
Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388120, Gujarat, India
Nimesh Oza
Department of Library and Information Science, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar 388120, Gujarat, India

Abstract


The paper explores the Institutional Repository as an indispensable tool for knowledge management process. It also tries to reestablish Dr. S.R. Ranganathans' philosophy of knowledge generation, evaluation and utilization especially of nascent micro thoughts and its mechanism in contemporary digital arena. The paper includes concepts, definitions and types of knowledge and KM and IR. It provides criteria, structural design and functions of IR including HRM and IR application Management. It emphasizes that IR can be an effective tool for KM in higher learning institutes and universities with the help of the latest IR software and its peripheral technology.

Keywords


Knowledge Management, Institutional Repository.

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