• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.33-47
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• 2015

An institutional repository includes digital assets generated by academics, such as administrative documents, course notes, learning objects, or conference proceedings. It will provide a window that gives open access to improve the sponsoring institution's visibility and status. This paper discusses the growth and development of Institutional Repositories available in BRICS Countries. The relevant data was collected from the directory of OpenDOAR. Based on the data in OpenDOAR, 242 repositories are represented from BRICS countries. Among the 242, 84 (34.71%) repositories are from Brazil, 39 (16.12%) from China, 68 (28.10%) repositories from India, 22 (9.109%) repositories from Russia, and 29(11.98%) repositories from South Africa. Brazil has the largest number of records (11, 17,688) among BRICS Countries repositories.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.53-73
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• 2024

The purpose of the study is to investigate the development of institutional repositories in university libraries in Nigeria. The study adopted a survey research design. Online questionnaire, IRs investigation, and interview methods were used to collect data from the 21 university libraries that have developed IRs in Nigeria. The study revealed that only few universities have successfully developed open access IRs to preserve and manage their intellectual outputs emanating from their universities. Contents such as journal articles, theses/dissertations, and conference / workshop papers were found to be the most popular contents that are hosted in the IRs. The interview revealed that although few respondents mentioned having IR policy statements in areas such as access policy, submission policy, preservation policy, content policy and copyright policy, the majority mentioned not having any defined policy in their IR. Also in the interview, inadequate fund, challenge of collecting contents for the IR, shortage of skilled ICT personnel, and inadequate facilities were the most mentioned challenges encountered in the development of IRs in Nigeria. Findings from this study will inform University Librarians, university management and policy makers on the need to provide the necessary infrastructure and formulate policies for smooth development of institutional repositories to make research visible globally. The results will therefore provide important data and insight into the development of institutional repositories in university libraries in the context of developing countries.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.197-218
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• 2017

이 연구는 국내 대학 리포지터리의 글로벌 가시성과 영향력을 파악하기 위하여 관련 사이트인 OpenDOAR, ROAR, RWR 등에서 데이터를 수집하여 분석하였다. 그리고 이 분석 결과를 기관 리포지터리의 위상을 공고히 하고 영향력 확산에 노력하는 비영어권 아시아 주요 국가와 비교함으로써 국내 대학 리포지터리의 경쟁력을 확인하였다. 연구 결과 세 사이트에 모두 등재되어 있는 국내 대학 리포지터리는 9개에 불과하였다. 이 가운데 RWR 세계 순위 500위 안에 든 대학은 한 곳일 정도로 국내 대학 리포지터리의 세계적인 위상은 매우 낮았다. 반면 아시아 주요국인 일본과 대만은 대학의 리포지터리 수가 각각 257개, 52개일 정도로 많아 국내 대학 리포지터리 현황과 대조적이었다. 그렇지만 이 연구는 국내 선도적인 대학 리포지터리가 최근 연구업적관리시스템과 연계하여 구성원의 샐프 아카이빙을 보다 적극적으로 수행하기 시작하였다는 점을 새롭게 확인하였다. 이는 향후 대학 리포지터리의 양적 성장을 기대할 수 있게 하는 단서라는 점에서 긍정적이었다.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.67-75
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• 2013

This paper discusses awareness of institutional repositories and open access publishing among faculty members in Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. The authors distributed 200 questionnaires among the faculty members in Annamalai University. Out of 200 questionnaires, 160 responses (80.00%) were received from faculty members. The respondents mentioned the motivating factors while using an institutional repository and indicated the benefits, constraints and strategies to develop open access in publications. It is evident from the table that more than 95% among the average of the faculty members confirm the benefits of open access in publications. 150 (93.75%) of faculty members have awareness, 6 (3.75%) have no idea and 4 (2.50%) state no opinion about awareness of institutional repository and open access publishing.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.67-83
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• 2022

This study aims to evaluate some academic institutional repositories (IRs) in Ghana. Data were collected using observation and interview methods by examining the various websites of seven (7) selected academic institutional repositories in Ghana. The findings revealed that the University of Ghana, Legon, leads records count of the seven Institutional Repository (IRs) examined. Dspace was the prioritized software for managing and preserving the digital contents of these IRs. Theses, dissertations and research articles were the leading contents deposited on the IRs. The majority of the IRs have incorporated RSS (Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) feeds on their IRs with few using other Web 2.0 features. English was the only interface language used on all the IRs. From the interview, the findings revealed that most of the faculty members did not use the IR very often and 9(42.9) also indicated that, they have never deposited their materials on the IR. Faculty members again indicated that, inadequate ICT connectivity and infrastructure, unreliable power supply, Copyrights and intellectual rights, financial constrain, inadequate advocacy and training on the importance of IRs to faculty and users were the major challenges of academic libraries in operating IRs in Ghana.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.103-127
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 두 단계를 거쳐서, 즉 리포지토리 운영에 필요한 이슈들을 제시한 SPARC 체크리스트 문헌 등을 분석하고(제 1 단계), 16개 국내외 대학의 리포지토리 운영현황을 사례 연구를 통해서 살펴본 후(제 2 단계), 리포지토리 운영에 중요한 여섯가지 요인을 추출하였다. 추출된 여섯가지 요인인 (1)학내 합의 형성과 운영 체제, (2)콘텐츠, (3)지식 재산권, (4)학내 동종 사업과의 제휴, (5)기술과 시스템 및 (6)도서관사서 역할의 쟁점들과 그 해결책을 기술한 운영 모형을 제안하였다. 제안된 운영 모형은 기관 리포지토리를 앞으로 구축할 계획 중인 대학은 물론 이미 구축된 리포지토리를 다각적으로 검토하여 활성화 방안을 모색하고 있는 대학에 하나의 지침이 될 것이다.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2018

Institutional repositories (IR) are promising to be extremely advantageous to scholars especially in developing countries. IR initiatives started in India during the late nineties and the popularity of this concept is growing rapidly in the higher educational and research institutions to disseminate newly emerging knowledge and expertise. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the network links of IR websites among four IITs that are registered in open DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) web portal. The Institutional Repositories chosen for the study are IIT Delhi, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, and IIT Kanpur. The analysis of the study focused on standard graph and network cohesion metrics, such as density, diameter, eccentricity and distances, and clustering coefficient; for an even more detailed analysis advanced centrality measures and fast algorithms such as clique census are used.

• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.47-68
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• 2019

The study investigates the utilization of open access repositories for visibility of academic publications by lecturers in South-East, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to investigate the types of academic publications available, platforms used in self-archiving, level of satisfaction derived by lecturers with the contribution of open access repositories, challenges and strategies. It adopted descriptive survey design. Proportionate stratified sampling technique was used to draw a sample size of 418 from the total population of 4,187 lecturers. Questionnaire and observation check list were used for data collection. Frequency count, percentage, and mean score were used to analyze the data. The study revealed that there are enough academic publications available such as books, journals, projects, and thesis with the exception of handouts. It also revealed that Google Scholar, Research Gate and Open Access Journal were the main platforms lecturers use in self-archiving; while other platforms like Institutional Repositories, among others were minimally employed. Lecturers are less satisfied with the contribution of open access repositories. All the suggested challenges such as inadequate power supply, poor network, lack of awareness and inadequate research grants were all accepted. Similarly, all the suggested strategies for improving them were accepted. Recommendations were made based on the findings such as more awareness creation on importance of open access repositories; re-training of lecturers and provision of adequate ICT infrastructures that will improve the utilization of open access repositories by lecturers which could enhance the global visibility of academic publications from the Nigerian Universities.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.131-152
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• 2010

본 연구는 세계의 실 운용중인 리포지터리 중 성공 사례들을 조사하고 그것의 실태와 운영정책을 분석하여 향후의 성공적인 리포지터리 구축과 운영시 유용한 전략적 토대를 마련하고자 하였다. 본 연구의 목적을 달성하기 위해 리포지터리의 성공 사례는 CSIC에서 제공하는 Ranking Web of World Repositories의 Top 10과 JISC에서 지원하는 Registry of Open Access Repositories을 통해 선정되었다. 성공적인 리포지터리의 운영정책 및 관련 자료는 주로 해당 사이트를 통해 수집하였고 큰 범주에서 주제 리포지터리와 기관 리포지터리로 나누었다. 운영정책은 운영 및 지원정책, 수집정책, 관리정책, 배포 및 이용활성화정책, 장기보존 정책, 기술정책, 그리고 저작권 정책으로 구분하여 분석하였다. 또한 성공적인 주제 리포지터리와 기관 리포지터리의 운영정책의 차이 및 국내와 국외 리포지터리간의 차이점도 살펴보았다.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.143-161
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• 2014

한국의 dCollection이 학위논문 수집기로 활용되고 있는데 반해, 일본의 레포지토리는 다양한 학술컨텐츠를 수집, 보존, 확산하고 오픈 엑세스를 실현하기 위한 개별 기관의 자발적인 운영 도구로 발전되고 있다. 본 연구는 일본의 기관 레포지토리 통계 DB인 IRDB를 통해 레포지토리의 특성을 통계적으로 분석하고 구축된 컨텐츠량, 종별 구축 비율, 그리고 종간 상관성을 살펴보았다. 또한 등록된 컨텐츠 특성을 변수로 K-means 군집 분석을 수행함으로써, 일본에 형성된 기관 레포지토리가 어떻게 유형화될 수 있는지 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 일본의 기관 레포지토리는 교내학술논문, 학위논문, 기술보고서, 의학자료, 학술잡지논문 등 다양한 컨텐츠를 수용하고 있을 뿐 아니라, 컨텐츠의 특징에 따라 5개의 차별화된 군집으로 유형화됨으로써 다양한 모습으로 발전되어 가고 있었다.