Role and Challenges of Digital Repositories in Scholarly Communication

Institutional repositories are digital collection of Institutes or university's resources which available to the users free of charge which has responded in two major factors, that is, first, it plays a role of catalyst in reforming the scholarly communication and second, in preserving the intellectual resources of the Institutes, therefore enhancing the visibility of the research and prestige of the organizations. An attempt has been made to explore institutional repositories from these perspectives and also its potentials and roles played by the various stake holders in the reforming scholarly communication process.