Background
- Searchers need to find titles in the web - IRs functionality – academic work holdings - Research data well managed
- Procedure in place for IR Holdings - Investment in local data management
Objectives
- Motivate researchers to publish their work - Visibility of titles in search engines
- Determine if academic work is visible and accessible
- Open Access sought after goal - Establish extent of the demand
Moving towards sustainable Open
Access
Investigative Questions
- Is CPUT’s IR populated with academic titles? - To what extent has the IR been used?
- Do searchers find IR webpage when using search engines? - How is the research data submitted?
Results
- Expect to find that documents behind logon in IR are not accessible via search engines
- Will propose a method to improve their visibility
References
Faddliza, M. Z. 2012. Journal of emerging trends in computing and information sciences. Current status of Open Access Institutional Repository: a case study in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), 3(3):427-431, March 2012 Mukherjee, B. 2010. Scholarly Communication in Library and Information Services: the impacts of Open Access
journals and e-journals on a changing scenario. Oxford Cambridge: Chandos Publishing
Russell, R. and Day, M. 2010. New review of academic librarianship. Institutional repository interaction with research users: a review of current practice, 16(S1):116-131
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