At the recent SAOUG Conference (3-5 June 2008) a number of presenters talked about the Open Source Institutional Repositories. World-wide the paradigm is to make research collections available online and to improve the access to information, which is of great value for research. Since the facilitation of access to information is a primary function of academic or research libraries, they can take the initiative to implement a digital research repository in order to manage, organise, preserve, distribute and offer access to research conducted by the members of the institution.
If an institution supports open access, wants to increase the usage and visibility of research conducted at that institution and want to preserve all research output digitally, an institutional repository (IR) is the answer.
In SA there are currently 12 repositories (see below). How to get started with creating IR?
- Analise the need of your organization (survey-questionnaire; presentations to researchers)
- Compile a plan & proposal
- Evaluate various IR software (DSpace, etc.)
- Develop, Design & Install your repository (management approval)
- Test your repository
- Market and promote your repository
- Develop policies and procedures (preservation, copyright, etc.)
- Sell the idea to the academics ( demonstrations; how easy is to submit material to repository)
- Provide training
- Register your repository
- Communicate, collaborate & share with others; start populating; make it more visible.
Have a look at the UJ Librarians News blog for more on the SAOUG:
In SA there are currently 12 repositories (see below). How to get started with creating IR?
- Analise the need of your organization (survey-questionnaire; presentations to researchers)
- Compile a plan & proposal
- Evaluate various IR software (DSpace, etc.)
- Develop, Design & Install your repository (management approval)
- Test your repository
- Market and promote your repository
- Develop policies and procedures (preservation, copyright, etc.)
- Sell the idea to the academics ( demonstrations; how easy is to submit material to repository)
- Provide training
- Register your repository
- Communicate, collaborate & share with others; start populating; make it more visible.
Have a look at the UJ Librarians News blog for more on the SAOUG:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES
Institutional Repository Workshop - University of Pretoria, 1 - 3 October 2008, University of Pretoria
USEFUL LINKS TO INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES @:
* University of Johannesburg
- UJ Electronic Thesis and Dissertations Database: http://etd.rau.ac.za/
- UJ Institutional Repositories: http://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/
* South Africa
African Higher Education Research Online
CSIR Research Space
DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Durban University of Technology Institutional Repository
Rhodes eResearch Repository
Stellenbosch University Electronic Theses & Dissertations
University of Cape Town Computer Science Research Document Archive
University of Cape Town Lawspace
University of Johannesburg Electronic Theses & Dissertations
University of Pretoria Electronic Theses & Dissertations
University of Pretoria Institutional Repository (UPSpace)
University of the Western Cape Electronic Theses & Dissertations
* Africa
African Higher Education Research Online
CSIR Research Space
DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Durban University of Technology Institutional Repository
Rhodes eResearch Repository
Stellenbosch University Electronic Theses & Dissertations
University of Cape Town Computer Science Research Document Archive
University of Cape Town Lawspace
University of Johannesburg Electronic Theses & Dissertations
University of Pretoria Electronic Theses & Dissertations
University of Pretoria Institutional Repository (UPSpace)
University of the Western Cape Electronic Theses & Dissertations
* Africa
* Worldwide
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