Analysis of e-LIS: an International Digital Repository for Library and Information Science

Open archive repositories have been assisting the researcher in getting the access to past research through archival repositories. Accesses to the open archive repositories are available freely on the Internet. The E-LIS open archive repository formulates LIS research more visible and accessible and increases its status and value. Here the researcher has tried to analyze an impact of E-LIS open archive digital repository of library and information science in the aspects of the annual growth of E-LIS publication index, primary subject coverage, types of documents indexing, country wise publication, and top downloads by country and highest downloaded articles, etc. The researcher also studied the top ten prolific authors, various file formats, internet browser and search engines used to access the E-LIS repository. This paper also discussed the author copyright policy, data preservation policy of repository. E-LIS is rapidly growing, and as on March 2018, there were over 20,000 full-text documents added from 124 countries around the world.
The Researchers have undertaken the case study method to analyze the impact of E-LIS open access repository. The relevant data and statistics are collected from the E-LIS official portal. The researchers systematically analyzed E-LIS repository by year-wise publications, subject coverage, country contributions, prolific authors, coverage, document type, formats, language coverage, most downloaded articles, most accessed countries, etc. Analyzed data is based on the data retrieved as of 29th March 2018 from E-LIS official website, i.e., http://eprints.rclis.org.