knust institutional repository experience by abednego corletey
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KNUST Institutional Repositoryexperience
by
Abednego Corletey
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KNUST
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(KNUST)
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Front View
Rear View
KNUST Library
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KNUST Library• Member of CARLIGH• Library System
– Central Library• 6 departments
– 6 College Libraries
• 17 Professional librarians• About 10 Para-professionals• Seating Capacity of about 1400
– abt 5.84% of student population
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KNUST Library• A broad collection of monographs, theses, WB,
WHO, FAO, pubs, serials/journals, video collection, digital records, special collection on Ghana
• Total book stock a little above 110,000• Access to over 19,000 electronic (online and
CD- ROM) peer reviewed sources and books
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Outline• KNUST IR• Hardware• Software• Personnel• Current content• KNUST Ranking• Challenges• Implications on KNUSTSpace• Targets• Current approaches• Looking ahead
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KNUST Mission Statement• The mission of KNUST is to provide an
environment for teaching, research and entrepreneurship training in Science and Technology for development of Ghana and Africa. KNUST will also provide service to the community, be open to all the people of Ghana and positioned to attract scholars, industrialists and entrepreneurs from Africa and other international communities.
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Proposed Mission Statement• University based IR that offers services to the KNUST
community to enable them manage and disseminate in digital forms academic and research output …. Created within the university or donated to it
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KNUST IR• Named KNUSTSpace• KNUSTSpace basically set up to showcase the
intellectual output from KNUST• Promote scholarly communication and sharing
among members of the community and other researchers globally
• Aid teaching and learning, including re-use and re-purposing of data/ information
• Support management of digital assets and preservation requirements
• To mitigate the publications/journals Crisis
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KNUST IR …cont’d
• Expected to include technical reports, research findings, theses, conference papers, book chapters, journal articles etc produced by members of the KNUST community
• Has approximately 600 entries • All entries metadata of post graduate theses• Information of each entry consist of metadata
and abstracts• url = http://dspace.knust.edu.gh
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Hardware in use • One server from the cluster of servers at
KNUST NOC• Server is HP Proliant ML350 G5
• quad core Xeon 5420 2.5gHz, 2gb RAM, 150gb HDD (2X)
• Two Desktops dedicated for IR • Intel dual Core, 2.2GHz, 2gb RAM, 320gb HDD
• One shared scanner • HP5500 flatbed
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Software• DSpace• Pdfmaker• Irfanview• Microsoft photo manager (Microsoft suite
2007)
• Lacking now is an OCR software
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Personnel• Two staff
– One shared Systems Analyst– Assistant Librarian
• Supporting staff– One typist (shared)
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Current Content• Abstracts and metadata of post graduate
student theses• About 540 entries
• A few abstracts from JUST (Journal of Science and Technology)
• Published by KNUST
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Impact on KNUST ranking• Ranking as at Jan 2009
– KNUST 52nd position for 100 best Universities in Africa
• KNUSTSpace started in February 2009
• July 2009 ranking– KNUST at 30th position for 100 best in Africa
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Challenges• Acceptance of IR concept
• Authorities• Community members
• Contribution of content• Institutional support
– Policies– Funding– Staff training (managers and users)
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Implications on KNUSTSpace• No Management committee at present• No Policy statement as blue print for
operating IR• No specific budget allocation for running IR• No statement on core staff training and
retention• Inability to load full text of articles
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Current approaches adopted• Intellectual (conceptual, logical, the greater
good)
• Emotional (hearts and minds, enlightened self-interest)
• Political (necessitation, external drivers, compliance with policy)
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Targets for year ahead• To carry out more advocacy among
members of KNUST community• Advocate for setting up a management
team• Push for a policy statement• Push for budgetary allocation• Get more staff for KNUSTSpace
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Targets for year ahead …cont’d
• To upload more varied scholarly content• Get more content providers/editors on board• Train more users • Promote more self archiving• Improve our standing in the rankings
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• End of presentation