... within an institutional repository. Furthermore, the study investigates learners’ acceptance of the MWLA system. Design/methodology/approach The study suggests implementing an MWLA with Algolia’s search service to improve the institutional repository and enhance learners’ access to reliable...

...Gema Bueno de la Fuente; Carmen Agustín-Lacruz; Mariângela Spotti Lopes Fujita; Ana Lúcia Terra Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the recommendations on knowledge organisation from guidelines, policies and procedure manuals of a sample of institutional repositories and networks...

... only Digital libraries Metadata Institutional repositories Controlled vocabularies Language archives In the Digital Collections, discrete items are described separately (e.g. individual photographs or documents), rather than grouping items as bundles, to describe the creation...

... repository (DSpace)/digital library (DL). In addition, the paper describes the legal issues for submitting an item in DSpace and self-submission process of an item as well as shows impact of DSpace on OER. Findings Open source software and Open Access Institutional Repository software has a fundamental...

..., as GL by its nature of non-commercial distribution aligns with the philosophy of the OA movement and OA institutional repositories are the better platforms for wider dissemination with necessary legal binding (Myska and Savelka, 2013). The role of search engines, academic search engines, aggregators...

...Yi-Ping Liao; Tsu-Jui Ma Purpose This paper aims to provide a bibliometric study of journal articles related to institutional repositories in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between January 1993 and August 2017. This study will provide researchers with a foundation for further research...

... Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only User studies Data repositories Institutional repositories Data sharing Metadata standards Data reuse Engineering researchers Technological advances in modern research have opened up new opportunities for data...

...Laerte Pereira da Silva Júnior; Maria Manuel Borges Purpose This paper aims to verify the implementation of digital preservation policies at the institutional repositories (IRs) of Brazilian Federal Universities. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used involved the verification...

...Fatemeh Lagzian; A Abrizah; Mee Chin Wee Purpose – This paper aims to explore the critical factors that contribute to the success of institutional repositories worldwide. Previous research indicates that there is little agreement surrounding what constitutes a successful institutional repository...

... librarians, ICT director and systems administrator (Chancellor College and Bunda College) and assistant librarians or repository co-ordinators in the constituent colleges of the University of Malawi (UNIMA) coupled with technical reports on digital and institutional repository projects in the UNIMA Libraries...

... were not included because research is not a major function for such institutions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Institutional repositories Open access University libraries South Africa The loss in buying power caused by the annual 10-20 per cent price increase...

... (2006) in his assertion that there had been increasing awareness among many universities in Africa for the need to create institutional repositories, which facilitate the adoption of ETDs. A related study by Ubogu (n.d.) reported that, of the 66 public universities in the SADC region, only 20 (30.3...

...' behavioral intention to self‐archive. Even though academic researchers tend to agree that institutional repositories are a good way of disseminating information and use them frequently, most of them have not fully embraced self‐archiving in institutional repositories. Originality/value This is the first...