Digital preservation policies of the institutional repositories at Brazilian Federal Universities

Júnior, Laerte Pereira da Silva; Borges, Maria Manuel

doi:10.1108/el-09-2015-0170

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“…The study revealed that 32 (26 per cent) ARL institutions currently have a digital preservation policy in place, from the institutions that responded (58 per cent response rate). On the other hand, the study by da Silva Júnior and Borges (2017) revealed that the IRs at Brazilian Federal Universities registered at the OpenDOAR do not have any preservation policies, even though all the repositories that have implemented the IBICT-IIP (Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology- institutional information policy) framework state their intention of preserving digital materials. Da Silva Júnior and Borges (2017) therefore concluded that a digital preservation policy would need to be drawn up in coordination with the staff in charge of the repository and the managers of the collections.…”

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“…On the other hand, the study by da Silva Júnior and Borges (2017) revealed that the IRs at Brazilian Federal Universities registered at the OpenDOAR do not have any preservation policies, even though all the repositories that have implemented the IBICT-IIP (Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology- institutional information policy) framework state their intention of preserving digital materials. Da Silva Júnior and Borges (2017) therefore concluded that a digital preservation policy would need to be drawn up in coordination with the staff in charge of the repository and the managers of the collections. Such a policy would need to be approved by the highest university authorities and that would also imply the assumption of a real commitment from the institution towards digital preservation issues.…”

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Digital preservation practices in university libraries

Anyaoku

Echedom

Baro

2019

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Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the digital preservation practices in institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from the IRs developed in university libraries in Africa, and it was done in two phases. The phases are website investigation to identify the university libraries in Africa that have developed IR and online questionnaire. Findings Results from the study showed that the majority of IRs in Africa used DSpace software to manage their digital contents, and more than half of the IRs engage in information migration. The study also revealed that the majority of the responding institutions provide long-term digital preservation in their IR. Interestingly, the majority of the IRs has developed digital preservation policy to guide the implementation of digital preservation for IR contents. Finally, the majority of the respondents indicated that they do not have long-term funding and lack the necessary technical staff with required skills to handle and manage the IR. Research limitations/implications Because of language barriers, data were collected from only universities in English speaking countries in Africa. Practical implications The findings of this study will make librarians in universities in Africa and other developing countries understand the key issues relating to digital preservation and longevity. Originality/value The findings of this study will inform information professionals, librarians in developing countries that are planning to create IRs and provide long-term digital preservation of electronic resources in their institution.

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Digital preservation practices in university libraries

Anyaoku

Echedom

Baro

2019

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“…In Korea, a consortium called the Korean Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) has been established to organize the IR of a number of universities into a single platform called “dCollection” (Digital Collection) to give users more access to information resources (Hee Kim and Ho Kim, 2008). Brazilian Federal Universities have also joined the global move of establishing IR to give visibility to their intellectual output (Da Silva and Borges, 2017). USA, Spain and Africa have all recorded a massive adoption of IR in their universities (Fralinger and Bull, 2013; Serrano-Vicente et al , 2018; Dlamini and Snyman, 2017).…”

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Digitizing the intellectual output of Ghanaian universities

Dzandza

2019

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Purpose With the emergence of ranking of universities by organizations, one major factor considered in the rankings is the intellectual output of the universities. For universities to remain part of the global academic competitive society, intellectual output of universities can no longer be stored on shelves in libraries. Academic libraries have engaged in digitization of the intellectual works of their institutions which is a core mandate of any academic library. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the state of digitization initiatives among university libraries in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach was adopted. Nine top universities in Ghana were selected to participate in this study. Interviews were conducted with heads of libraries. Findings The findings of the study revealed that seven out of the nine libraries studied have embarked on some sort of digitization initiative, and all libraries studied are using the same digital asset management system (Dspace). Major challenges reported by the participants that are common to all the libraries studied are lack of adequate and modern equipment, lack of trained personnel and lack of cooperation from faculty members. Originality/value This study brought fore the initiatives undertaken by academic libraries in Ghana to establish and maintain institutional repositories (IRs) amidst a number of challenges. It is a major contribution to the literature from West Africa as not much literature on IR is found from this part of the world.

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“…The main challenge IR manager's face right now is to keep an IR dynamic without losing these features, and it is directly linked to the policies and procedures that it adopts. In Brazil, even if some of the repositories of universities have started their preservation purpose, most of them have not published digital preservation policies in their repositories (da Silva Júnior and Manuel Borges, 2017). Globally, most repositories, which are archiving ETDs have not defined metadata, content submission and preservation policies (Loan and Yaseen, 2020).…”

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Institutional repositories in South India: an exploratory study

Shajitha

Majeed

2021

GKMC

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the institutional repositories (IRs) in South India in terms of policy and procedures, technology, content and contributors, promotion and assessment and personnel. Design/methodology/approach A voluntary survey was conducted to assess IRs in South India. The questionnaire was designed according to the study framework, which comprises 64 indicators across five areas: policy and procedures, technology, content and contributors, promotion and assessment and personnel. Furthermore, all of the 23 IRs identified were monitored over one year period (from February 2018 to January 2019) to analyse the content growth. Findings The Research Archive of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad was found to provide more services to users than other South Indian IRs and it was the sole IR to embed a metadata field for author identification. Almost all the IRs were actively engaged in promotion and assessment activities. IR performance in the technology area was substandard in comparison with performance in the policy and procedures and promotion and assessment areas. For all South Indian IRs, content growth was low. Originality/value Very few in-depth studies have evaluated South Indian IRs across all five of the areas listed above and in recent years, no such comprehensive study has been conducted in India at all.

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Digital preservation policies of the institutional repositories at Brazilian Federal Universities

Cited by 8 publications

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Digital preservation practices in university libraries

Digital preservation practices in university libraries

Digitizing the intellectual output of Ghanaian universities

Institutional repositories in South India: an exploratory study

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