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Abstract
IR’s are developed to manage, preserve and maintain the research output, digital materials and historical information of the country. IR’s are self-archived and open access to the materials of an organisation. This article focuses on present trends and status of the IRS of India. The study states that R & D institutions are the major creators of IRs and Karnataka state having highest number IRs in the Indian sub-continent. It is also observed that Dspace and Eprints software’s are the commonly used IR software’s in India. The public libraries have also taken initiatives to develop IRs of publically important information and the public libraries have to put more effort in IRs development. In Indian universities the IR research is very slow, only few universities having their IRs and other universities has to take initiatives to develop their IRs.