Looking At Institutional Repositories In Malaysian Public Universities
University libraries are developing and maintaining institutional repositories as a means of managing and disseminating digital materials. In most instances, these materials are created by the staff of the university and institutional repositories serve to disseminate information on the academic...
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Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/34195/1/V3_7_09.pdf http://eprints.usm.my/34195/ http://www.myjurnal.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=271 |
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| Summary: | University libraries are developing and maintaining institutional repositories as a
means of managing and disseminating digital materials. In most instances, these
materials are created by the staff of the university and institutional repositories
serve to disseminate information on the academic activities of the university
community. There is a move amongst universities worldwide to develop and
maintain their own institutional repositories. The size of the collection may range
from hundreds to thousands and universities in Malaysia are showing signs of
interest in this area. Numerous Malaysian public universities are slowly but surely
developing institutional repositories either in isolation or collectively as a
consortium. This paper presents the status of institutional repositories which are
hosted by Malaysian public university libraries. As at 28 October 2008, the Registry
of Open Access Repositories lists seven Malaysian institutional repositories and
only four of them are from university libraries. This number is extremely small when
compared to the existence of 20 public universities throughout Malaysia. Findings
indicate that the other libraries are at various stages of developing their
institutional repositories. Some are at the initial stage of designing and developing
their repositories whilst others are enriching the contents of their repositories. |
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