Analysing the impact of an open-access institutional repository on scholarly communication in australian countries

Modern-day institutional repositories serve a crucial role in advancing higher education systems and fostering research and development. Individual organizations utilize the open-access institutional repository platform to present their intellectual achievements. The present study examines the impact of Open Access Institutional Repository (OAIR) on scholarly communication within Australian countries. The study focuses on the present status of Australian Open Access Institutional Repositories. Data were collected from the global Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories (DOAR) website and collected data have been analysed and represented in graphical and tabular formats to clearly understand the study results. The authors also assessed the Australian contribution to various parameters such as year-wise growth pattern, nature of the Institutional Repository, disciplines, content, top oldest IR, and software used to build the institutional repository. The study's findings revealed that out of 84 repositories, the highest number of registrations of repositories took place in the years 2006 and 2019, i.e., 26 (30.95%) and 14 (16.67%), respectively. It shows that the majority used Dspace software 20(23.81%), followed by other software 15(17.86%). The majority of 73(86.90%) institutional repositories are institutional in nature, followed by disciplinary 7(8.33%).