Institutional Repositories

Institutional Repository (IR) is the collection of the scholarly output of the academic community. This involves the process of collecting, organising, storing/archiving and made accessible to all users. IR constitutes of scholarly publications such as research articles (published in various journals, conference proceedings, book chapters), theses and dissertations, project reports and any other materials submitted by faculty members, research scholars, staff, students, etc.  NIT Rourkela presently has installed and maintaining three (03) IRs for the benefit of the user community. 

1. e-Papers@NITRKL (DSpace)

This repository consists of research articles published by Faculties and Research Scholars in various journals, conference proceedings, book chapters. And is freely available items of scholarly and academic interest.

2. e-Thesis@NITRKL (EPrints)

"ethesis@nitr" is the official repository for electronic thesis submitted to National Insititute of Technology Rourkela. This repository is an attempt to make all locally produced theses more visible to global users. It is mandatory for students of all courses (BTech, MTech, MTech by Research, MSc, and Ph.D.) and from all disciplines to upload the final version of the theses submitted in partial fulfillment of degree. This repository is an Open Access repository, and any interested user can download all uploaded theses to use. It is an institutionally defined repository, so "Create Login" facility is restricted to campus intranet users only. Only NIT Rourkela students can upload their theses. This repository is powered by "eprints."

3. Project OAOB (EPrints)

OAOB is a not-for-profit project, initiated by National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Srujanika, Bhubaneswar and Pragati Utkal Sangh, Rourkela. It disseminates the available information in Odia language treasured in our local libraries and individual collections. The project is made available online to millions of readers worldwide. An open access repository containing resources pertaining to Odia literature and culture, OAOB provides free access to researchers, scholars, historians, librarians, and the general public at all point in time.

The mission of the project is to preserve the cultural history of Odisha by digitizing old, rare and new literary and other texts written in the Odia language. The primary focus is to digitize rare and copyright-free Odia documents (books, texts, and manuscripts) which are under deteriorating condition in libraries, archives, and individual collections to make them openly accessible to all.