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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Institutional repositories"”.
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Integrating institutional repositories into the Semantic Web
… to automatic discovery, linking, and analysis. Institutional repositories contain a wealth of information which could benefit from the application of this technology. In this thesis I describe the problems inherent in the informality of traditional repository metadata, and propose a data model …
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Electronic resources and institutional repositories in informal scholarly communication and publishing
The aim of institutional repositories is to aid the management and dissemination of the increasingly copious amount of scholarly electronic resources produced by academics. To date most research has focused on the impact for formal scholarly publishing. The purpose of this exploratory study is to …
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Challenges of information systems innovation in developing country contexts: an inquiry into the adoption of institutional repositories in Nigerian universities
… countries justifies this. Using the example of institutional repository (IR), an IS used to promote open access to scientific knowledge produced by universities, this study proposes actionable remedies to challenges of IS innovation in universities in developing countries. This study focuses on …
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Open access research publications and South African institutional repositories (IRS) in the context of Private Law and practices : an interdisciplinary study
… through open access practices such as institutional (research) repositories. This study employs an interdisciplinary approach combining library and information science with Private Law. By making use of a social-legal approach the focus is on the legal challenges institutional …
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Digital preservation in institutional repositories in Namibian academic libraries: A case study of the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and the University of Namibia (UNAM)
… long-term digital preservation activities in Institutional Repositories (IRs) digital contents at Namibian academic libraries (Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and University of Namibia (UNAM)). The study intended to determine the procedures and policies which are governing …
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Towards the establishment and implementation of an institutional repository at the University of Cape Town (UCT): a case study
… Africa, especially South Africa. Increasingly, institutional repositories are being planned and developed by universities throughout the world especially in the first world countries, which have taken the lead. Institutional repositories have developed because of changes in scholarly …
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Digital Repositories in Private Clouds
This study explores the use of digital repositories in private cloud environments. Private cloud computing is a cloud computing deployment model where compute and storage infrastructure are hosted on-premise by institutions. Digital repositories are used to manage institutions’ generated content. …
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Deposit of open scholarly publications: examining researcher engagement with UCT’s open access policy
… openly-licensed journal articles into the institutional repository, OpenUCT, by researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The deposit of such materials into OpenUCT, which is managed by UCT Libraries, is mandated by the UCT Open Access Policy, which was approved by the University …
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Arranging Stories: The Implications of Narrative Decision in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers, 1894-1944
… project, supported by archival research at ten institutional repositories, invites a reconsideration of women writers’ authorial control throughout the publication process.
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Accessibility of Grey Literature Originating from Public Universities in Tanzania
… study proposes the formation of databases and institutional repositories within libraries of the respective universities to properly deal with their grey literature generated internally. Through these databases and institutional repositories public universities will handle and afford wider …
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The Psychosocial Well-being of Nurses and Psychologists in Africa: A Scoping Review
… PsycINFO, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, institutional repositories, and other grey literature sources, as well as a hand search of the reference lists of included studies. Studies included were assessed for eligibility by two independent reviewers. Findings: Fifteen studies are included …
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Insights into the South African research landscape through mining theses and dissertations using transformer-based language models
… scientometric analyses due to fragmented institutional repositories, limited standardisation, and weak integration with global bibliographic infrastructures. This study develops a methodology for harvesting, enriching, and analysing ETDs using a combination of metadata integration, …
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Analyzing and Navigating Electronic Theses and Dissertations
… since a majority of these digital libraries are institutional repositories with the objective being content archiving, they often lack end-user services needed to make this valuable data useful for the scholarly community. To effectively utilize such data to address the information needs of …
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Navigating the PDF/A standard: a case study of theses in the University of Oxford’s institutional repository
The PDF/A (Portable Document Format–Archival) was established by the International Organization of Standardization as the ISO 19005 standard for long-term preservation of electronic documents. While the ISO requirements of a well-formed PDF/A ensure sustainability and easy recovery of content, the …
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Web-based library for student projects/theses and faculty research papers
The purpose of this project is to make available a Web-based Library, a web application developed for the Department of Computer Science at CSUSB to manage student projects/theses and faculty papers. The project is designed in accordance with Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern using the …
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Web-based library for student projects/theses and faculty research papers
The purpose of this project is to make available a Web-based Library, a web application developed for the Department of Computer Science at CSUSB to manage student projects/theses and faculty papers. The project is designed in accordance with Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern using the …
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Research data management services in selected public universities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… data citation. DSpace and DUT Open Scholar are institutional repositories (IRs) that are used to permanently store, manage, and archive research data such as journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and dissertations. Unfortunately, most researchers are unaware of how long their …
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Research data management services in selected public universities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… data citation. DSpace and DUT Open Scholar are institutional repositories (IRs) that are used to permanently store, manage, and archive research data such as journal articles, conference proceedings, theses, and dissertations. Unfortunately, most researchers are unaware of how long their …
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The use of information and communication technologies for the support of knowledge management in selected academic libraries in Nigeria and South Africa
… resources, stored in university libraries’ institutional repositories. It can also be used to access and retrieve knowledge from library websites without the need for a physical visitation to the library building. Different strategies have emerged where social networks are used to promote …