Benefits and Perspectives of Institutional Repositories in Academic Libraries

Prabhakar, S.; Rani, Suman

doi:10.21922/srjhsel.v5i25.10948

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“…Academic institutions such as universities have predicted IRs as an essential part of higher education, because without providing knowledge through these IRs one cannot fill the gaps and challenges of the modern day. Some of the pertinent relevancies are grouped into the following categories in specificity to universities as opined by Prabhakar and Rani (2017) :…”

Section: Relevance Of Institutional Repository To Institutionsmentioning

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“…On this, Cullen and Chawner (n.d.) categorically asserts that Academic librarians have shown themselves to be adept at adjusting to these changes, and been proactive in advancing research, scholarship and knowledge using the IRs, there have been a steady and progressive adoption of the new technology, one that brings with it the potential for a further paradigm shift in the whole system. Prabhakar and Rani (2017) buttressed this by adding that ALs have benefited from the information communication technologies as the information with their traditional sources in print format is now being added to the electronic resources. The institutions are converting their assets into digital format for creating digital collection for the last few years.…”

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Sustaining the Relevance of Institutional Repository in Academic Libraries in Nigeria: A University of Jos Perspective

Igboechesi,

Adigun,

Pobish

et al. 2023

IJLISS

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Institutional repositories (IRs) are one of the fastest growing mediums of accessing Electronic information resources in Academic Libraries (ALs) today. They have potentially increased the public value, ranking, prestige, and visibility of researchers, and relevant universities. Despite the important and rapid growth of IRs, few efforts have been made to systematically review and integrate the findings of various research studies to ensure the sustenance of IRs in Nigeria. Hence, this paper carried out a review on the IR of University of Jos to provide a better way of sustaining it in the Institution and Nigeria by extension. The study employed a longitudinal research method and systematic literature review (SLR). Findings showed that the viewers from the local host (Nigeria), is not encouraging as expected. The IR challenges include; limited qualified manpower and network issues. On the way forward, the study provided a roadmap for better efforts in sustaining institutional repositories by highlighting the basic guidelines for the successful viability of IRs in the Nigerian higher academic public institutions.

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Section: Relevance Of Institutional Repository To Institutionsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sustaining the Relevance of Institutional Repository in Academic Libraries in Nigeria: A University of Jos Perspective

Igboechesi,

Adigun,

Pobish

et al. 2023

IJLISS

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“…Open access software is freely available to access and use digital scholarly material that can be stored with no licensed agreement requirement. Open access to scholars means that it is available free in the repository and anyone can copy, read, download, distribute, and print open-access documents under certain license [10]. The open access repository has advantages for the author and the university.…”

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Understanding Institutional Repository in Higher Learning Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review and Directions for Future Research

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Institutional repositories (IRs) have received considerable attention from researchers across disciplines and around the globe. They have potentially increased the public value, ranking, prestige, and visibility of researchers, and relevant universities. However, despite the important and rapid growth of research in this area, few efforts have been made to systematically review and integrate the findings from previous research studies or to examine the current state of study regarding IRs. The primary goal of this paper is to provide a better understanding and an in-depth review of the current state of study regarding IRs. This research uses a systematic literature review (SLR) and followed a protocol to properly organize the work related to institutional repositories. The data were collected from primary studies published from 2007 to 2018 from the six major databases (ScienceDirect, IEEE Explorer, Springer, ACM, Taylor and Francis, and Emerald insight). Several papers regarding IRs were reviewed, applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, and a total of 115 studies were included as the main part of this research. The results obtained from these studies indicated that the absence of knowledge of open access IRs among scholars and institutions and inadequate information and communication technology infrastructure were significant challenges behind the development of open access IRs. Meanwhile, enhanced visibility of the academic institution, increased local and global rankings, increased prestige and public value, and improved teaching, learning, and research development by the scholars of the institution were found to be the main benefits of institutional repositories. This paper also highlighted that most of the studies in this research area were focused on the "deployment, implementation, and adoption" and "benefits and challenges" of institutional repositories. The outcomes of this paper can assist future researchers by providing a roadmap of institutional repositories and highlighting guidelines for successful implementation of IRs in higher learning institutions.

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“…Institutional repositories form a means of effective management and preservation of an institution's heritage, knowledge base, and intellectual assets, thus resulting in the content of institutional repositories expanding with a scope of not only electronic preprints, including research data, but elearning materials and other forms of institutional intellectual products, which must secure in such a way that they remain accessible and retain their authenticity, reliability, and integrity (Prabhakar & Manjula Rani, 2018). The repository can contain extensive topics of study of a discipline, and it can include much more specific topics, depending on each institution's needs and interests.…”

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Perspective of the Institutional Digital Repository in the Protection and Diffusion of Academic Activity

Armando Picón

2024

Ciencia Latina

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Repositories emerge as an initiative to improve access to knowledge, constituting a digital-based alternative for academic communication. The need to develop a repository for the Universidad Privada María Serrana is proposed, given the need to create a space for disseminating and accessing academic works. The general objective was to analyze the perspective and transcendence of the institutional repository, and the specific objectives were to define the importance of creating an institutional digital repository, to determine the objectives and the content or type of materials, and to point out the benefits and difficulties that the development of the repository would have. It was a non-experimental, quantitative, descriptive, and cross- sectional research, applying an express questionnaire using Google Forms. The sampling was non-probabilistic, voluntary, and intentional, aimed at students and teachers from a population of 980 students and 130 teachers, with 105 students and 31 teachers participating. As the main results, all participants determined that creating an institutional repository was necessary, most of them considering that the objective would be to manage, preserve, and maintain the academic material in digital files. Regarding the reasons and importance of its creation, with most frequencies in the significant degree, they placed the option referred to the changes and technological advances.

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Benefits and Perspectives of Institutional Repositories in Academic Libraries

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Sustaining the Relevance of Institutional Repository in Academic Libraries in Nigeria: A University of Jos Perspective

Sustaining the Relevance of Institutional Repository in Academic Libraries in Nigeria: A University of Jos Perspective

Understanding Institutional Repository in Higher Learning Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review and Directions for Future Research

Perspective of the Institutional Digital Repository in the Protection and Diffusion of Academic Activity

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