Dear Members It is highly motivating news that 25+ Indian institutional repositories have been listed in worlds top repositories ranked by M/s Sigmatrics information services, Spain (http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.asp). Many organizations and research laboratories of ICAR, CSIR, ICMR, etc are expressing interest in establishing institutional repositories. Recently CSIR had made it mandatory for all its laboratories to establish institutional repositories. Informative documentation, Books, and featured IR Tools will play key role in success of IRs. New book titled Design & Development of Institutional Repositories by Dr. (Mrs) Poornima Narayana, Head, Information center, CSIR-NAL has been published in the domain, which is definitely a good contribution to the existing resources available in the area. Professionals who are engaged in OA, especially in IR activities can benefit from this book to a great extent. About the book: This book attempts to study the Problems and Perspectives in Design and Development of Institutional Repositories (IR). The serial crisis leads to Open Access Movement in the world with the emergence of its prominent channel; the IRs - an Organization based service for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. IRs provide visibility, preserve the heritage, enhance prestige of the institution, propagate/promote the research and facilitate interaction among the scientists/academicians. This study has evaluated major IRs set up in the world and especially in India in terms of IR software (commercial and open), infrastructure, archival issues, subject, document type and language in depth resulting in the evolution of suitable different IR models both in global and national context. Based on the interactions of IR managers/administrators both from world’s and India’s leading IRs and user community of scientists and academicians, key factors successful for sustainability, expertise, sound policies, guidelines and standards for establishing IRs have been evolved both at worldwide and national levels. Details of the Book Title: Design & Development of Institutional Repositories Author: Dr. (Mrs) Poornima Narayana Publishers: LAP-Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, W. Germany Pages: 404 ISBN-13: 978-3-8473-7652-1 ISBN-10: 3847376527 EAN: 9783847376521 https://www.lap-publishing.com/catalog/details/store/gb/book/978-3-8473-7652... Warm regards Shivaram BS -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.