A Study of Literature Review on Current Developments of Institutional Repository in Taiwan

Abstract

Due to the dramatic changes in information technology and scholarly communication, institutional repository has become an important and popular issue all over the world. Although institutional repositories are still evolving and taking on differing manifestations in specific institutions, they can be defined in general as systems and service models designed to collect, organize, store, share, and preserve an institution’s digital information or knowledge assets worthy of such investment. The article aims to review ten years (2002-2011) Taiwan’s institutional repository related researches and developments and makes a conclusion. Totally, 25 documents of periodicals, thesis and books published in Taiwan are reviewed, and important suggestions are addressed for future developments. pp. 71-86

Keywords

• 機構典藏；發展現況；臺灣圖書館；文獻回顧