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Open Access to Odia Books—A Digital Repository of Cultural Heritage of Odisha: an Assessment

Bulu Maharana. , Abhijit Chakrabarti1 , Bulu Maharana2

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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science 14(2):p 101-106, . | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijlis.0973.9548.14220.10
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Introduction: The emergence of digital repository became
inevitable after 2003 when Open access movement initiated all
around the globe. Open Access to Odia Books (OAOB) is digital
repository focused on the collection of Odia books to preserve the
heritage of Odia literature and culture through digitization of old
and rare documents in Odia Language.


Objective: The present study has been conducted to find out the
recent trends of openly accessible e-books in Odia language available
through the repository--Open Access to Odia Books (OAOB) in
terms of year, author, subject, etc.Design/Methodology/Approach: The required data for this study has been collected online for analysis from the OAOB web-pages. After that they have been summarized and analyzed as per objectives mentioned.


Findings: The result shows that 836 digitally scanned e-books are
available in Odia language on different subjects through OAOB. The
analysis has been made based on different bibliogpahic parameters
like year of publication, subject wise availability, etc. It is also found
that there is a special collection of e-books. Special collection includes
mainly translated books of Shreema, Aurobindo, Rabindranath
Tagore, Gandhiji and many other classical authors.


Conclusions: The study is important for the promotion of Odia
e-books and accessible to all people through OAOB so that people
interested in Odia language and literature can easily be availed the
opportunity of reading e-books in Odia language free of cost and it
increases the image of people of Odisha.


Keywords: Directory of Open Access Repository (DOAR); Open
Access to Odia Books (OAOB) National Institute of Technology
(NIT); Odia books; Odia language and literature; Open Access;
Repository; Disciplinary repository.

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  • Bulu Maharana.
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  • Abhijit Chakrabarti1
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  • Bulu Maharana2
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