Use of institutional repositories in selected colleges in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Institutional Repository (IR) is the boon for any academic institution. It really helps in collecting, preserving and disseminating the intellectual output of an institution. Sometimes it is really difficult for IR manager to manage the IR because of obstacles like resistance from faculty to provide their material, conversion of old material from print to digital etc. This paper mainly focuses on the different material that can be uploaded on IR, IR managers’ difficulties etc. The outcome of present research will motivate the IR manager to overcome challenges and introducing some new features in IR development. For this study, Survey Research Method was used and Questionnaire instrument are used for collecting the data.