University institutional repositories: competitive environment and their role as communication media of scientific knowledge

Ruiz-Conde, Enar; Calderón-Martínez, Aurora

doi:10.1007/s11192-013-1159-5

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“…However, the issue of content composition of IRs has generated much concern among scholars and they seem to have failed to reach a consensus on the functions of an IR (Ruiz-Condo & Calderon-Martinez 2014). According to Foster and Gibbons (2005), the success of an IR hinges on it containing scholarly content of enduring value which is searched and cited.…”

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Usage of institutional repositories in Zimbabwe’s public universities

Tapfuma

Hoskins

2019

SA Journal of Information Management

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Background:The concept of institutional repositories (IRs) has gained traction across the globe; Zimbabwe's public universities have established IRs to capture, store, archive and widely disseminate their institutional intellectual capital. However, research output from the repositories remains obscure, hence the motivation to explore the use of IRs in the universities to ascertain if they are getting a return on their investment in IR technologies. Objectives:The objectives of this study were to establish the range of items contained in the repositories; establish the growth of the repositories and determine the software platforms being used.Method: A mixed methods approach was used, with methodological triangulation. Study participants included eight public universities, library directors, assistant or IR librarians; complete enumeration was done. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and bibliometric analysis of IRs, policy documents, Directory of Open Access Repositories and Registry of Open Access Repositories. Qualitative data were analysed thematically; Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was adopted to analyse quantitative data and generate tables. Results:The IRs largely contain peer-reviewed content, while the DSpace software is popularly used. Most of the repositories are searchable on the Internet. The biggest repository has acquired 2520 items in 10 years, while the smallest one has 46 items in 7 years. The population of the IRs is slow because of various challenges. Conclusion:The repositories have not been successful because populating them is a challenge. This could partly be because of libraries being too selective about content going into the IRs. Adopting the DSpace software by the universities points to long-term preservation plans for their intellectual output stored in the repositories for posterity.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Usage of institutional repositories in Zimbabwe’s public universities

Tapfuma

Hoskins

2019

SA Journal of Information Management

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The dark side of open access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories

Orduña-Malea

López-Cózar

2014

Scientometrics

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Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access (OA), determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Google (search engine par excellence) and Google Scholar (a tool increasingly used by researchers to search for academic information). The few studies conducted so far have been limited to very specific geographic areas (USA), which makes it necessary to find out what is happening in other regions that are not part of mainstream academia, and where repositories play a decisive role in the visibility of scholarly production. The main objective of this study is to ascertain the presence and visibility of Latin American repositories in Google and Google Scholar through the application of page count and visibility indicators. For a sample of 137 repositories, the results indicate that the indexing ratio is low in Google, and virtually nonexistent in Google Scholar; they also indicate a complete lack of correspondence between the repository records and the data produced by these two search tools. These results are mainly attributable to limitations arising from the use of description schemas that are incompatible with Google Scholar (repository design) and the reliability of web indicators (search engines). We conclude that neither Google nor Google Scholar accurately represent the actual size of open access content published by Latin American repositories; this may indicate a non-indexed, hidden side to OA, which could be limiting the dissemination and consumption of open access scholarly literature.

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Leading emerging markets: capturing and diffusing scientific knowledge through research-oriented repositories

Calderón-Martínez

Ruiz-Conde

2015

Scientometrics

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University institutional repositories: competitive environment and their role as communication media of scientific knowledge

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Usage of institutional repositories in Zimbabwe’s public universities

Usage of institutional repositories in Zimbabwe’s public universities

The dark side of open access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories

Leading emerging markets: capturing and diffusing scientific knowledge through research-oriented repositories

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