Institutional repositories are powerful tools to facilitate global access to intellectual output by members of the institution, particularly in assisting them to preserve and maximize access to their research output globally. This exploratory study of the status of institutional repositories implementation in African countries using the global Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and Transparent Ranking: All Repositories by Google Scholar, reports on the operational status and the performance of repositories. Factor analysis and cluster analysis are used to analyze the operational level of institutional repositories in African countries. The analysis showed that the typical performance of institutional repositories remains below average. The possibility of global open access to research results through institutional repositories in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Algeria, Sudan, and Egypt appeared to be relatively more feasible than other African countries. This study concludes that many organizations, institutions, and societies spend great efforts in support of open access implementation in Africa, however, the widespread implementation of institutional repositories is still very slow paced, and the performance of the implemented repositories was below expectation. Suggestions for regaining the intended direction of African institutional repositories are given based on the current status.

机构资源库是强大的工具，可促进机构成员在全球范围内获取知识成果，特别是协助他们在全球范围内保留并最大程度地获取其研究成果。本研究使用Google学术搜索的全球开放访问存储库目录（OpenDOAR）和透明排名：所有存储库，对非洲国家机构存储库的实施状况进行了研究，报告了存储库的运行状态和性能。因子分析和聚类分析用于分析非洲国家机构知识库的运作水平。分析表明，机构存储库的典型性能仍然低于平均水平。通过南非，肯尼亚，尼日利亚，阿尔及利亚，苏丹和埃及的机构知识库全球开放获取研究结果的可能性似乎比其他非洲国家相对可行。这项研究得出的结论是，许多组织，机构和社会都在大力支持非洲的开放访问实施，但是，机构存储库的广泛实施仍然非常缓慢，并且已实现存储库的性能低于预期。根据目前的状况，提出了重新恢复非洲机构知识库的预期方向的建议。各个社会都在大力支持非洲的开放获取实施，但是，机构存储库的广泛实施速度仍然很慢，并且已实现存储库的性能低于预期。根据目前的状况，提出了重新恢复非洲机构知识库的预期方向的建议。各个社会都在大力支持非洲的开放获取实施，但是，机构存储库的广泛实施速度仍然很慢，并且已实现存储库的性能低于预期。根据目前的状况，提出了重新恢复非洲机构知识库的预期方向的建议。