An analysis of the factors affecting open access to research output in institutional repositories in selected universities in East Africa

Miriam Kakai
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INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories (IRs) present universities with an opportunity to provide global open access (OA) to their scholarship, however, this avenue was underutilised in two of the three universities in this study. This study aimed at proposing interventions to improve access to research output in IRs in universities in East Africa, and it adds to the depth of knowledge on IRs by pointing out the factors that limit OA in IRs, some of which include lack of government and funder support for OA and mediated content collection workflows that hardly involved seeking author permission to self-archive. METHODS A mixed methods approach, following a concurrent strategy was used to investigate the low level of OA in IRs. Data was collected from three purposively selected IRs in universities in East Africa, using self-administered questionnaires from 183 researchers and face-to-face interviews from six librarians. results The findings revealed that content was collected on a voluntary basis, with most of the research output deposited in the IR without the authors’ knowledge. The respondents in this study were, however, supportive of the activities of the IR, and would participate in providing research output in the IR as OA if required to do so. CONCLUSION The low level of OA in IRs in universities in East Africa could be increased by improving the IR workflow, collection development, and marketing processes. Self-archiving could be improved by increasing the researchers’ awareness and knowledge of OA and importance of IRs, while addressing their concerns about copyright infringement.
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对东非选定大学机构知识库中影响开放获取研究成果的因素的分析
机构知识库(ir)为大学提供了一个向其奖学金提供全球开放获取(OA)的机会,然而,在本研究的三所大学中,有两所没有充分利用这一途径。本研究旨在提出干预措施,以改善东非大学对学术论文研究成果的获取,并通过指出限制学术论文OA的因素,增加了对学术论文的了解深度,其中一些因素包括缺乏政府和资助者对OA的支持,以及中介内容收集工作流程,这些工作流程几乎不涉及寻求作者对自我存档的许可。方法采用混合方法,遵循并发策略,研究IRs低水平OA。数据是从东非大学中有目的地选择的三个ir中收集的,使用183名研究人员的自我调查问卷和6名图书馆员的面对面访谈。结果研究结果表明,内容的收集是在自愿的基础上进行的,大多数研究成果在作者不知情的情况下存放在IR中。然而,本研究中的受访者支持IR的活动,如果需要的话,他们会以OA的形式参与IR的研究产出。结论东非高校图书馆的OA水平较低,可通过改进图书馆工作流程、馆藏开发和营销流程等措施加以改善。通过提高研究人员对开放获取的认识和知识,以及对ir重要性的认识,同时解决他们对侵犯版权的担忧,可以改善自归档工作。
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