Contribution of Botho Institutional Repository for Scholarly communication
- 2. Contribution of Botho Institutional Repository for Scholarly communication 2nd Botswana Library Consortium Open Access Conference in 2014, Gaborone
- 3. Outline of Presentation Basic Concept of Institutional Repository Benefit of Institutional Repository Role of Institutional Repository in Scholarly communication Botho University Institutional Repository Conclusion and way forwards
- 4. Basic Concept of Institutional Repository • The developments of institutional repositories (IRs) are the part of the "Open Access" approach in higher education. • “A digital collection capturing and preserving the intellectual output of a single or multi- university community.” Raym Crow(2003). <http://www.arl.org/sparc/IR/ir.html
- 5. Basic Concept of Institutional Repository • “A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members” (Lynch,2003)
- 6. --Continue • In simplest sense it is a type of content management system that holds the university’s core intellectual asset such that it is available and accessible to the scholar community.
- 7. Benefits of Institutional Repository • Create global visibility for an institution’s research outputs • A repository that contains high quality content could be used as a 'shop window' or marketing tool to entice staff, students and funding • Centralized content management system • Store and preserve the institutional intellectual asset • Increase citation
- 8. Role of Institutional Repository in Scholarly communication Scholarly communication: a bit about it • Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community and preserved for future use(Martain,2008). • Scholarly communication system is intellectual and creative activity in which knowledge is shared among scholars and within the public
- 9. Scholarly communication-- Means of Scholarly Communication • Formal scholarly communication: scholarly publishing(Journal articles ,conference, papers monographs, etc.) • Informal Scholarly communication: attending conferences, discussion groups, distributing preprints etc.)
- 10. Role of Institutional Repository in Scholarly communication Contributions of IR to Scholarly communication • Quick retrieval of scholarly publication • Increase researchers global visibility • It bring about economic relief to libraries • It reduce the monopoly power of commercial journals • It create accessibility to scholarly publication
- 11. Botho University Institutional Repository • The idea of Botho University IR was conceived in 2011 but only started operating in February 2014. Why have an IR at Botho University? • To make the University’s scholarly outputs available online internationally
- 12. Botho University Institutional Repository • What Software we are using ? Dspace • Top reasons to us Dspace It is has well organized web-interface Metadata in Dublin core format It is top prefer open access software for IR
- 13. Botho University Institutional Repository • Communities and Collections Community is the highest-level administrative unit at Botho University that produces research.
- 14. Continue Botho University Institutional Repository can accept the following items: • Documents (e.g. articles, working papers, technical reports, conference papers) • Books • Theses and dissertations • Data sets • Computer programs • Visualizations, simulations, and other
- 15. Contribution of BUIR for Scholarly communication • Enhance research visibility • Institutional repository serve as an alternative channel communication For example • In 2012 , twenty four scholars present their papers in international conferences. However 14 of these are only available in Botho institutional repository for the following reasons:
- 16. Continue • Access restriction • Lack of archiving • Temporary website Botho University Institutional Repository is the second registered Dspace member following University of Botswana.
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- 18. Continue Research Management • Currently the repository research database is being used for various purposes : • Staff research profiles • Performance report , • Control unintended research duplication
- 19. Continue Challenges • unwillingness of authors to share information • Copyright and related right management issues • Lack of awareness
- 20. Way forwards and conclusion Way Forwards We librarian------ • we should share leadership and operational responsibility with other concerned bodies • Organize workshops, seminars, orientation on regular base • Find champions from faculty and Students
- 21. Way forwards and Conclusion Conclusion The traditional means of scholarly communication is not applicable in today's digital scholarly communication system. Thus we can concluded that IR is a key solution for effective scholarly communication.
- 22. • Thank you • Amsegnalu • Kea leboga