Dear Sir/Madam,

With due respect you are requested to participate in a study entitled “Content Management of Institutional Repositories in India” that is being conducted to reveal the state of the art of Indian Institutional repositories, its future scope and prospects and to find out the hindrances in indexing of its contents by the web.

Your participation in this study is voluntary wherein you will be asked to complete an electronic survey that need to be complete before 10th February, 2013. There are no risks associated with participating in this study and it would take only 10 minutes to complete.

Information collected in this study, will be used to rank the institutional repositories in the Registry of Indian Open Access Repositories (available over www.oajse.com). It will approximately sent 100 visits in every month to your Institutional Repository.

Among the participants, two best institutional repositories will be selected for an award based on best practices and other factors. Awards will be declared on 25th February, 2013 and will be sent by 10th March, 2013.

If you have any questions regarding this survey in general or your rights as a research participant, please contact Ms. Kankana Baishya at baishya.kankana@gmail.com.

Please fill up the Survey Questionnaire located at the link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHREUUJJbTJqb3.... If the link is not click-able then copy and paste it in a new browser window