DIGITAL REPOSITORY @ DCE: KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN AN ENGINEERING INSTITUTE – A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Engineering Institutions in India are being ranked by various surveys conducted every year by magazines like India Today, Outlook etc, which give importance to parameters like placements, brand value and intellectual capital. Intellectual capital of an Engineering Institution is the published scholarly material of its faculty consisting of articles presented in conferences and seminars , papers published in journal, case studies, books written and edited, etc. Use of tools like Institutional Repository softwares for capturing the intellectual capital and enabling knowledge sharing in academic institutions especially in developing countries like India are need of the hour. The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of a survey conducted to ascertain different considerations for implementing an institutional repository and the creation of an Institutional Repository at Delhi college of engineering using the Open Source DSpace Institutional Repository Software.