It makes freely accessible over the internet this intellectual output to all those who are interested in it, thereby promoting the knowledge development. Building an Institutional Repository in the Knowledge Resources Centre has many objectives like It servers as a digital archive of the total research output created by the academic community of an institute.
Open source software is already in wide use within Research Community and Libraries and is particularly well established in ICT infrastructure support and management systems. It can offer original solutions to problems not addressed by proprietary software and it has the potential to lead to significant savings in the budget of Knowledge Resources Centre expenditure on information and communications technology (ICT). Open source software development, using open standards, can support greater interoperability between systems and enable system sharing.
The increasing maturity of open source software and open source platforms offers significant potential benefits to the Knowledge Resources Centres.