More and more institutions in
South Africa are
starting to
implement digital
institutional
repositories in
order to collect,
disseminate, manage,
preserve, and index
the research output
created by their
communities, as well
as other special
material after being
digitized.
For a university,
this would include
materials such as
research journal
articles
(scholarly
publications), before
(pre-prints) and
after (post-prints)
undergoing peer
review, and digital
versions of theses
and dissertations,
but it might also
include other
digital assets
generated by and
donated to an
institution, such as
art and other image
collections,
conference papers
and proceedings,
etc. Once digital
material was
accepted by an
institutional
repository, this
repository should be
able to guarantee
access and
preservation of the
digital data for
years to come.
Software you
can use to implement
your Institutional
Repository
Status of
Institutional
Repositories in
South Africa
(according to
ROAR and
openDOAR)
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