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The African Digital Health Library, (ADHL) is a collaborative project involving five African institutions namely Bamako University of Science and Technology, Kenya Methodist University, Universities of Ibadan, Nairobi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The University of Ibadan Nigeria component of the ADHL (ADHL-UI) is described in this paper. Funded by the Office of Global AIDS Coordinator of the United States Department of State, the goal of ADHL-UI is to store, preserve, make accessible through an institutional repository, theses and dissertations by postgraduate students of the institution's College of Medicine. The ADHL-UI has over 1000 theses and dissertations accessible on the internet. Creation of the ADHL-UI, a repository of theses and dissertations in the Medical Library, University of Ibadan, is a major contribution to research development and preservation of institutional scholarly heritage. Effective use by students and faculty will help in reducing duplication of research efforts and create visibility for the authors and the institution.
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Academic Dissertation , Access to Information , Libraries, Digital , Libraries, Medical , Africa , Health Information ManagementABSTRACT
The rapid growth of Internet and increasing interest in its usage has led to an acceleration of digitisation of printed documents and making available born digital documents online. Zambia's research output is primarily in print and not much is disseminated globally. It is against this background that innovations for digital libraries have been started in several African countries, including Zambia. The overall objective of the African Digital Health Library Zambia was to increase the health content that is held in the University of Zambia Institutional Repository by digitising publications produced by various institutions in Zambia, with a vision of capturing over 6,000 current and historical materials. Equipment was acquired and sensitisation meetings were held with various stake holders to ensure successful project initiation and sustainability. Scanning and uploading of documents was done after a technical expert had trained both Library and Information Technology staff on Dspace software. Marketing the digital library within the institutions and nationally was also conducted. In June 2018 there were 266,838 downloads of materials. Challenges of collecting required materials from relevant stake holders and convincing them to make available their content were encountered in the process. Enhanced collaboration and sensitisation of stakeholders were essential in ensuring the successful implementation of the project.
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Medical Informatics , Libraries, Digital , Libraries, Medical , Africa , Health LiteracyABSTRACT
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comparar dos repositorios institucionales digitales a nivel internacional para encontrar convergencias y divergencias con respecto al manejo y la operación de los datos, información y contenidos. Además, contribuye a ampliar el panorama y conocimiento con respecto a la importancia e impacto de los repositorios digitales en las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES). Los repositorios en estudio corresponden al Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectual (SEDICI), repositorio institucional central de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina y Kérwá, repositorio institucional principal de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR), Costa Rica. Para responder al objetivo de investigación, se desarrolló un análisis metodológico cualitativo. La información se recolectó a través de la aplicación de un cuestionario a las personas responsables de la gestión administrativa de ambos repositorios y una exploración bibliográfica de documentos en formato electrónico, como artículos publicados en congresos, revistas internacionales, entre otros. El análisis se realizó acorde a los siguientes criterios y características: representación de recursos, interoperabilidad, normalización, visibilidad, preservación, entre otros. Se concluyó que los repositorios institucionales digitales se han convertido en una tendencia de innovación para las IES, ya que utilizan y promueven herramientas tecnológicas para producir cambios significativos con respecto al uso y manejo de la información. Asimismo, los repositorios digitales analizados convergen en aspectos como: software, metadatos, números normalizados, representación de recursos, accesibilidad, identificador, derechos de autor, depósito de contenidos, buscadores y preservación. Divergen en interoperabilidad, proceso de digitalización, depósito remoto, visibilidad, licenciamiento y divulgación.
The objective of this work is to compare two digital international institutional repositories to find convergences and divergences in regards to the administration and operation of data, information and content. Also, it contributes to broaden the panorama and knowledge related to the importance and impact of digital repositories in Higher Education Institutions (Instituciones de Educación Superior - IES). The repositories studied belong to the Dissemination Service of Intellectual Creation (Difusión de la Creación Intelectual - SEDICI), main institutional repository of La Plata National University (UNLP), Argentina and Kérwá, main institutional repository of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), Costa Rica. A methodological quantitative focus was developed to accomplish the investigation objective. The information was collected through questionnaires applied to the people responsible of the administration of both repositories and a bibliographical revision of electronic documents, such as articles published in congresses, international magazines, among others. The analysis was implemented following these criteria and characteristics: resources representation, interoperability, normalization, visibility, preservation, among others. It was concluded that digital institutional repositories have become an innovation trend for IES. They use and promote technological tools to produce significant changes in regards to information use and management. Also, the digital repositories analyzed converge in aspects such as: software, metadata, normalized numbers, resources representation, accessibility, identifier, author rights, contents deposit, searchers and preservation. They diverge in regards to: interoperability, digitalization process, remote deposit, visibility, licensing and divulgation.
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The resources development for institutional repository between college and university libraries in China and USA was comparatively analyzed in aspects of its richness,usability,normality and sustainability with C9 League Colleges and Universities in China and Ivy League Colleges and Universities in USA as examples,which showed that the construction of institutional repository in domestic college and university library is still at its initial stage,its usability and normality are limited,and its sustainability is not so promising.
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El objetivo de este trabajo es describir alternativas incorporadas en el formato EPUB3 para promover el acceso a la producción académica y científica de las instituciones por parte de personas con discapacidades visuales. Como punto de partida se toma la figura del repositorio institucional como espacio que alberga y difunde esta producción, y cuyos objetivos incluyen darle mayor visibilidad y maximizar su impacto, manteniéndose así en la misma línea con la propuesta de este estudio. Se analizan los aportes introducidos en el formato EPUB3 con respecto a sus antecesores. En particular, se estudian las extensiones existentes que sirven para optimizar la síntesis de voz a partir de los textos (TTS, text-to-speech), la incorporación de voces adicionales y múltiples voces, y finalmente las herramientas disponibles para visualizar y reproducir documentos EPUB3 con incorporaciones TTS. En este aspecto, se hace énfasis en las aplicaciones accesibles gratuitamente desde dispositivos móviles actuales a fin de asegurar el aprovechamiento de estos aportes por cualquier potencial persona usuaria. Por último, se evalúa la viabilidad de implementar un circuito de generación de documentos EPUB3 accesibles, y se analizan posibles servicios adicionales que el repositorio institucional
he aim of this work is to describe alternatives introduced in EPUB 3 format to promote access to the academic and scientific institutional production by users with visual disabilities. The figure of the Institutional Repository is taken as starting line, understood as a space which hosts and disseminates this production, and whose objectives include maximizing its impact and fostering its visibility, both in the same line with the proposal of the study.Contributions in EPUB 3 format are analyzed and compared to its predecessors. Particularly, the existent extensions that are useful to optimize the voice synthesis for text to speech (TTS), the ability to add spare and multiple voices, and some of the available tools to visualize and reproduce TTS-enabled EPUB 3 documents. In this matter, the stress has been put on applications freely available for current mobile devices, in order to ensure that any potential user will be able to take advantage of these contributions. Lastly, the viability of implementing a circuit for accessible EPUB 3 documents generation is discussed, and further services for an institutional repository to offer from these tools are briefly mentioned.
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After the institutional repository system was constructed using the open-source software Drupal, the team collaboration platform and institutional repository platform were integrated into a Web 2.0-based network plat-form on which the users can create their project groups and other users can be formed as dynamic virtual groups by joining the team group in which they work in collaboration.The team members submit the files to the project group in a sustained manner for its share and use during the ongoing project, and the files become the intellectual proper-ties of project group.The whole project group was sealed as a part of institutional repository after the project was completed, and the users can see how the project is completed at any time, thus helping the collection, store and use of intellectual properties.
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The aim of joint development and sharing of institutional repository is to reveal and use the primary literature in military colleges and universities, and help scientific researchers, teachers and students to discover and use such re-sources .The ideas on joint development and sharing of institutional repository in military colleges and universities were thus analyzed, and the related problems were elaborated with suggestions put forward for their solution.
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After a description of the connotation and features of social network and its effect on open access to digital information resources, the structural frame of social network-based open access to digital information resources was constructed.
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The culture research institutional repository of the Tibetan and Qiang Nationalities was developed using DSpace with its framework design, implementation methods, application functions and current state described, according to the current cultural research resources of the Tibetan and Qiang Nationalities in Aba Normal School , in order to realize their effective integration, organization and management, and promote the spreading, communicating and sharing of characteristic resources.
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A large number of documents will be generated in the process of new drug research,including lots of references.These data accumulate into institutional repository.Up to now,the management of document knowledge base in the process of new drug research has not yet been published.The paper uses the reference management software,combined with the document knowledge management system,to analyze and research the management model and method for establishing institutional repository.