ABSTRACT

Promotion and publication of local content on an institutional repository enhances the visibility of the university and staff. This local content consists of the university's publications and other rare materials. As a result of the quality and content of these materials, it is necessary that such resources should be properly preserved for posterity to enhance their access and use. The current article studies the acquisition and management of the contents of five Nigerian universities' institutional repositories available on OpenDOAR. Data was collected using interviews and observation checklist. Study results reveal that University of Nigeria Nsukka has the highest volume of 21,461 contents, while University of Nigeria Nsukka and Federal University of Technology Akure archived the greatest variety types of content. Covenant and University of Nigeria Nsukka archived more journal articles. The five universities studied acquire their content mainly from their postgraduate schools. These universities have an open-access policy, use DSpace, and apply Dublin Core metadata. The study recommended that creating awareness among universities on the role of institutional repository in enhancing global visibility is important. Therefore, to achieve this, more workshops should be organized.

摘要

在机构资源库中促进和发布本地内容可提高大学和员工的知名度。本地内容包括大学的出版物和其他稀有资料。由于这些材料的质量和内容，有必要妥善保存此类资源以供后代使用，以增加其获取和使用的机会。本文研究了OpenDOAR上五所尼日利亚大学机构知识库的内容的获取和管理。使用访谈和观察清单收集数据。研究结果显示，尼日利亚Nsukka大学的内容量最大，而尼日利亚Nsukka大学和联邦科技大学Akure的内容类型最多。盟约和尼日利亚大学Nsukka存档了更多期刊文章。研究的五所大学主要从其研究生院获得其内容。这些大学具有开放访问策略，使用DSpace并应用Dublin Core元数据。该研究建议，在大学之间建立对机构知识库在增强全球知名度方面的作用的认识很重要。因此，为实现这一目标，应组织更多的讲习班。