SETTING UP A MMUST

DIGITAL INSTITUTIONAL
REPOSITORY
BY
ROBINSON M. WIKANA
HEAD, SYSTEMS AND VIRTUAL LIBRARY
SERVICES
Dip in Information Science, BSc. LIS (Systems and Information
Communication)
 What is an Institutional
Repository
• It is an online archive for collecting, preserving,
and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual
output of an institution, particularly a research
institution.
• A digital archive of intellectual output of an
institution;
• An electronic system for collecting, preserving and
disseminating an institution’s intellectual output;
• A system that provide open access to research
output.
 Why have an Institutional
Repository in MMUST?
• Fulfils the university’s mission to generate,
preserve and disseminate scholarly work.
• Complete record of its intellectual effort.
• Maximizing the visibility and impact of these
outputs
• Research management tool.
• ‘Marketing’ tool for universities
• Provides maximum Web impact for the
institution.
• Meets our Performance contract target.
Types of Software Platforms
for IR.
• Open-source software packages
− Dspace.
− Eprints
− Fedora
− Invenion
− Opus
− SobekCM
− Greenstone

• Proprietary) software
− Digital Commons, Bepress Digital Commons, Simple DL, Ex
Libris DigiTool, OCLC ContentDM, Open Repository etc
Distribution of Institutional Repository
platforms in the World.
 Materials handled by an IR
• Journal articles – refereed, non-refereed, editorials, book
reviews etc;
• Conference papers – refereed, non-refereed, accepted
abstracts, poster sessions and PowerPoint presentations;
• Books and book chapters from commercial, non-
commercial, society and University publishers;
• University projects and theses resulting from non-
research awards, including professional doctorates, final
year projects, honours theses and research reports
forming a substantial part of an undergraduate degree,
where submission is agreed by reviewers;
Cont.
• University publications such as books, working and
discussion papers, government submissions, research
reports and inaugural lectures;
• Creative, performance-based and visual arts outputs
that have research components.
• Research data sets, statistics and surveys associated
with research publications;
• Proceedings and papers from conferences hosted by
the University
• Journals supported by the University
• Patents.
 A sample of Kenyan
Universities with an IR
1. Dedan Kimathi University 12. Technical university of
2. Egerton University Kenya.
3. JKUAT 13. Aga Khan University
4. Kabianga University 14. CUEA
5. Kenyatta University 15. Daystar University
6. Nairobi University 16. Kabarak University
7. Kisii University 17. Strathmore University
8. Moi University 18. KCA
9. Murang’a University 19. KEMU
10. Meru University 20. MKU
11. Technical university of 21. PAC
Mombasa. 22. PUEA
23. USIU
 STATUS AT MMUST
• The idea started in 2010 with UON taking the
lead. MMUST started it February 2015
• A quick survey on the various platforms
confirmed DSPACE as the most common open
source platform.
• Currently, it is has been installed and
customized on a Modern CPU in the library.
 Base URLs for MMUST’S
Institutional Repository.

• Our IR can be viewed on;

http://ir-library.mmust.ac.ke
Sample Interface on http://ir-
library.mmust.ac.ke
• Demonstration of the IR
“It is one of the noblest duties of a University
to advance knowledge and to diffuse it, not
merely among those who can attend the daily
lecturers, but far and wide.”
Daniel Coit Gilman
First President, Johns Hopkins University
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