The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) initiatives in the repositories of federal government-owned universities due to the poor global visibility of ETDs from Nigeria.,An explanatory case study empirical research method was adopted for the study. Using an adapted methodology of Ghosh (2009) and multiple data gathering techniques, data was collected based on the three domains of the network of excellence on digital libraries (DELOS) digital library reference model.,The ETD initiatives in repositories of Nigerian federal universities have not made remarkable progress as digital libraries based on policy, content and system architecture. The specificity of ETDs is not clearly stated in the policies where available. The repositories housing the ETDs are also not compliant with the open archive initiative-protocol for metadata harvesting framework.,The study focussed on ETD initiatives in federal government-owned universities. Although the findings of the study are relevant to other institutions in Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa. It cannot be used as a basis for the generalisation based on other performance metrics.,This research study concluded that electronic theses and dissertations in Nigerian institutional repositories are not well managed for effective service delivery and long-term accessibility. The ill-management of the ETD initiatives is the reason for the poor global visibility and accessibility of these research output from this part of Africa.,The study assessed ETD initiatives using constructs from a theoretical framework.

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尼日利亚电子论文和论文计划的绩效评估

这项研究的目的是调查由于尼日利亚ETD的全球知名度较差而导致的联邦政府拥有的大学的电子论文和论文（ETD）计划的绩效。采用了解释性案例研究实证研究方法研究。使用Ghosh（2009）的改编方法和多种数据收集技术，基于数字图书馆卓越网络（DELOS）数字图书馆参考模型的三个领域收集了数据。尼日利亚联邦大学知识库中的ETD计划作为基于策略，内容和系统架构的数字图书馆，没有取得显着进步。在可用的政策中，并未明确说明ETD的特殊性。包含ETD的存储库也不符合用于元数据收集框架的开放式存档倡议协议。该研究的重点是联邦政府拥有的大学中的ETD倡议。尽管研究的结果与尼日利亚和撒哈拉以南非洲的其他机构有关。本研究得出的结论是，尼日利亚机构知识库中的电子论文和学位论文没有得到有效管理，无法有效地提供服务和长期可访问性。对ETD计划管理不善的原因是这些来自非洲部分地区的研究成果在全球范围内的知名度和可及性较差的原因。该研究使用理论框架下的结构对ETD计划进行了评估。