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Potential benefits for authors and the Institute                                                         Home

• It raises the prestige of NITR and enhances the professional visiblity of the faculty, as global potential users will be able to access and more effectively use your research findings archived here.
• It raises the impact of your research findings.  It has already been proved that open access online articles have higher citation rates than the articles only in print**.
  
• All publications by the faculty will be archived and managed in a central place in an organised way with properly managed backups. 
  
• It is a tool with proper date stamp and identifier helps authors to establish priority of ideas and intellectual property
  
• Students of NITR can easily access the papers of the faculty through dspace@nitr
• All documents archived here will also be indexed by global search services like Google Scholar
  

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• Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journal/ Stevan Harnad
• Online or Invisible?/Steve Lawrence
  

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Dspace Team  National Institute of Technology, Rourkela