Institutional Repositories and Libraries in Nigeria: Interrogating the Nexus

Institutional Repositories and Libraries in Nigeria: Interrogating the Nexus

Institutional repositories (IRs) are emerging trends in scholarly discourse among members of the academic community in Nigeria. Global practice shows that many IRs are administered by librarians in the academia. This article examines the nexus between libraries and IRs. It observed that though the emergence of IRs holds great advantage for academic institutions, many Nigerian institutions,...
 
Published at Journal of Cases on Information Technology
Volume 20
Issue 2
Pages 16-29
Published in 2018
 
 
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Goodluck Ifijeh, Oyeronke Adebayo, Roland Izuagbe and Olajumoke Olawoyin
Izuagbe Roland » Roland Izuagbe holds a B.Sc (Library and Information Science) and MLIS (Library, Archival and Information Studies) from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma and University of Ibadan, Ibadan respectively. He is a Serials Librarian with Resource Officer II designation in the Center for Learning Resources, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. view full profile
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