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Open Access Repositories

by Ezra Shiloba Gbaje B.Tech . Maths /Computer Science, MLS Department of Library and Information Science Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria eIFL.net Open Access Nigeria Coordinator E- mail: shiloba@yahoo.com ; Website: www.sharondelight.net. Open Access Repositories.

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Open Access Repositories

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  1. by Ezra ShilobaGbaje B.Tech. Maths/Computer Science, MLS Department of Library and Information Science Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria eIFL.net Open Access Nigeria Coordinator E-mail:shiloba@yahoo.com ; Website: www.sharondelight.net Open Access Repositories • Presented at 2nd Open Access Workshop held at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. 1st – 4th November, 2009 Sharondelight Information Consults

  2. A digital repository is defined as: • An Institutional repository (IR) is a set of services that an institution can offer to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.

  3. A digital repository is defined as: • IR is designed to help capture and organize everything produced by researchers – digitized versions of lecture notes, videos, papers, and data sets – into an "institutional repository" that will make it available to future generations in its original digital form.

  4. Feature of IR • Open Archival Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI-PMH compliant Sharondelight Information Consults

  5. Types of Repository

  6. http://www.opendoar.org/ Sharondelight Information Consults

  7. Sharondelight Information Consults

  8. Disciplinary: http://eprints.rclis.org/

  9. http://arxiv.org/ Sharondelight Information Consults

  10. http://arxiv.org/list/math.IT/recent Sharondelight Information Consults

  11. Repository Maps-Registry of Open Access Repositories

  12. Self-Archiving Strategies The most common ways for self-archiving Strategies are: • authors' personal Websites, • disciplinary archives, • institutional repositories

  13. Requirements for Setting up IR • IR software – Dspace, eprint, Fedora run on web server • Hence the need for infrastructures to deploy a webserver

  14. What Can we do • Collaborate with IT personal to deploy institutional repositories. • Help researchers archive their research papers – both new and old in an open repository. • 

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