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Visibility and Accessibility of Indigenous Knowledge on Open Access Institutional Repositories at Universities in Africa

Digital Libraries and Institutional Repositories, 2020
Much research has been done on Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) at African universities but the results are inaccessible as they remain scattered all over in researchers' offices, yet IK plays a significant role in Africa's development.
M. Tapfuma, R. Hoskins
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Strategies for the use of open access institutional repositories at universities in Ghana

, 2020
This article suggests strategies for the usage of open access institutional repositories (OAIR) at university libraries in Ghana.,Pragmatism paradigm, mixed methods research approach and convergent parallel mixed method design was adopted.
Kwame Kodua-Ntim, M. Fombad
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Investigation of challenges in academic institutional repositories

Library hi tech, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the breadth of the challenges and issues facing institutional repositories in academic libraries, based on a survey of academic librarians.
Soohyung Joo, D. Hofman, Youngseek Kim
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Evaluation of institutional repositories of South Asia

Online information review (Print), 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied.
Sumeer Gul, S. Bashir, S. A. Ganaie
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Metadata Documentation Practices at ARL Institutional Repositories

portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
:This paper describes an investigation into whether institutional repositories at member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) provide publicly available metadata documentation via the repositories' websites.
Ayla Stein Kenfield
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The role of institutional repositories in promoting grey literature in academic libraries in Tanzania

, 2018
This paper is based on a study, which examined the role of Institutional Repositories (IRs) in promoting Grey Literature in Tanzania’s academic libraries. Specifically, the study assessed the status and date birth of IRs in academic libraries in Tanzania;
A. Samzugi
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The story so far-digital preservation in institutional repositories

Digital Library Perspectives, 2019
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the standards, strategies, support and challenges of digital preservation in institutional repositories in academic libraries in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThe research was qualitative.
E. Adjei   +2 more
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Open access institutional repositories in universities in East Africa

Information and Learning Science, 2018
Purpose Given that repositories were proposed as one of the routes to open access (OA), this study sought to establish the achievements universities in East Africa had attained in initiating institutional repositories (IRs), the challenges in providing ...
Miriam Kakai   +2 more
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Institutional Repositories and Usage: Thoughts on Realized and Potential Value

Public Services Quarterly, 2018
Column description. The Future Voices in Public Services column is a forum for graduate students in library and information science programs to discuss key issues in academic library public services, to envision what they feel librarians in public ...
Miriam L. Matteson
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Institutional repositories: a bibliometric study of the social sciences citation index (SSCI)

Electronic library, 2018
Purpose This paper aims to provide a bibliometric study of journal articles related to institutional repositories in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between January 1993 and August 2017.
Yi‐Ping Liao, T. Ma
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