Revolutionising Scholarly Communications Through Institutional Repositories: Empirical Findings from a University (College) in Malawi

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amoni Kapasule ◽  
Winner Chawinga
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
University College

Strategic Access

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Scholarly Communications

AbstractThere is a revolution afoot in scholarly communication and it is called, Open Access. Whilst Gregory J Gordon is a strong proponent of Open Access, he believes many people are missing the point as more does not mean better, it only means more. Open Access has had a major impact on scholarly communications by reducing the traditional barriers to research. Unfortunately, this has compounded the issues of discovery. Institutional repositories, disciplinary repositories and multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional repositories and metrics such as downloads, citations, and Eigenfactor™ Score are new tools in the scholarly researcher's kit. Familiarity and comprehension of these tools will help scholars make efficient use of the overabundance of scholarly communications. This strategic access approach will ultimately result in greater precision.

scholarly journals The Open Access Initiative: A New Paradigm for Scholarly Communications

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Yiotis
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Present System ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Metadata Harvesting

<span>This paper gives an account of the origin and development of the Open Access Initiative (OAI) and the digital technology that enables its existence. The researcher explains the crisis in scholarly communications and how open access (OA) can reform the present system. OA has evolved two systems for delivering research articles: OA archives or repositories and OA journals. They differ in that OA journals conduct peer review and OA archives do not. Discussion focuses on how these two delivery systems work, including such topics as OAI, local institutional repositories, Eprints self-archiving software, cross-archives searching, metadata harvesting, and the individuals who invented OA and organizations that support it.</span>

scholarly journals The Participation and Web Visibility of University Digital Repositories in the European Context

Comunicar ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (40) ◽  
pp. 193-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurora Calderón-Martínez ◽  
Enar Ruiz-Conde
Keyword(s):  
European Level ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Teaching Content ◽  
University College ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
European University ◽  
Web Visibility

This study focuses on academic institutional repositories as tools that allow us open access to scientific and academic production. Specifically, we analyze the Top 50 European University repositories differentiating, firstly, those repositories linked to Spanish universities compared to those belonging to universities throughout Europe and, secondly, repositories that only include research content as opposed to those that also include teaching content. Specifically, this work complements previous studies on the consolidation of the repositories, focusing on the analysis of the competitive environment by considering their participation and relative visibility shares. The analysis, using competitive maps and comparative advantage method, allows us to identify European university repositories that lead their segments, in terms of their levels of participation and web visibility in the market. In general, without distinguishing by segments, results show that the leadership at European level in terms of participation is held by the University College of London (UK) and the repository of the University of Umea (Sweden) is the leader in visibility.El presente estudio se centra en los repositorios institucionales universitarios como instrumentos que posibilitan el acceso en abierto a la producción científica y académica. Se analizan los Top50 repositorios universitarios europeos diferenciando, en primer lugar, aquellos repositorios vinculados a universidades españolas frente a los pertenecientes a universidades del resto de Europa y, en segundo lugar, los repositorios que incluyen en sus contenidos exclusivamente resultados de investigación frente a aquéllos que también albergan recursos docentes. En concreto, este trabajo complementa estudios previos sobre la consolidación de los repositorios, profundizando en el análisis del entorno competitivo a partir de sus cuotas relativas de participación y de visibilidad web. El análisis efectuado, a través del diseño de mapas competitivos y la aplicación del método de la ventaja relativa, permite identificar los repositorios universitarios europeos líderes en sus segmentos respecto a sus niveles de participación y visibilidad web en el mercado. A nivel general, sin establecer diferencias por segmentos, los resultados muestran que el liderazgo a nivel europeo, en términos de participación, lo ostenta el University College of London (Reino Unido), mientras que el repositorio de la Universidad de Umea (Suecia) es líder en visibilidad.

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