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Academic Repository As A Resource For Effective Students Academic Work
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The ever
evolving Internet platform and technological advancements in the area of
information management offers innovative ways to information managers
to use in the acquisition, storage, management and dissemination process
of information. To this end, university libraries are always on the
lookout to adopting the new tools to improve their services to the
users. Digital repositories are the new platform that libraries are
adopting as an additional digital resources and services on their
portals. This requires additional investments and increase in resources
towards the full creation and implementation of the institutional
repositories.
Institutional repositories also known as digital
libraries serve to provide services that support users in their tasks
and they involve interacting with the systems and interaction behavior.
The components of import in the scenario of such services include users,
the presented content as well as the system on which they are
performed.
The latest innovations for academic institutions and
resources centers in the area of information are the digital information
resources. Digital Information resources have been defined by
Bhattacharya, U. (2007) as information bearing material in digital form
and it includes databases both local and remote, CDs and DVDs, and
electronic publications that include e-journals, e-books and the Web
resources.
Many academic institutions worldwide have adopted
e-resources as important infrastructures in improved service provision
for their users. Included and of special focus in this study are digital
libraries or repositories defined as “organizations that provide the
resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer
intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity
of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works
so that they are readily and economically available for use by a
defined community or set of communitiesâ€, Digital Library Federation
(1999).
In the same manner that Libraries became hallmarks of a
university, Digital repositories are stamping their existence in many
academic and research institutions. It seem that it is a ‘must have’ in
universities and research institutions. In a survey of 1152 respondents
in the information world about digital repositories, 70% had established
and implemented digital repositories while 22 indicated their intention
to implement.
It is then a reality that digital repositories can
only increase in number in as many felt that the importance of
repositories was on the increase. In Africa, digital repositories will
certainly increase in the universities as they are tied to webometric
ranking that help increase the research visibility of African
universities.
“KUBANNI†the repository of the Ahmadu Bello University
runs on DSpace (2), an open access proprietary software that is not
only useful for archiving and disseminating research-related documents
but offers excellent utility features such as reuse, metadata storage
that are in tandem with requirements for modern repository usage.
Wherefore,
traditional studies focused on assessing the value of information
technology to the organization and the determinants of that value with
the objective of helping firms to “better deploy and manage their IT
resources and enhance overall effectivenessâ€, Several approaches have
been used to address this problem. Of interest to this study is the
approach to examine the determinants of IT adoption usage by individual
users as advanced by Davies, (1989) and Davies et al, (1989). The
forerunners of this thinking were Delone and Mclean (1992) who focused
on the examination of usage as a surrogate measure for information
systems success.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Institutional repositories also known as digital libraries serve to provide services that support users in their tasks. This study investigates the usage of the digital resources and repository system in an academic institution of higher learning.The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of the digital repositories as a resource for an effective students’ academic work using the “Kubanni†repository and students of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria as our case ... Continue reading---
