چکیده:
The generation, acquisition, utilization and application of knowledge/ information
is an indispensable factor for growth and development. Nigeria’s vision 20: 2020 is
a blueprint designed for the development of the country with emphasis on making
it one of the top developed economies by the year 2020. However, the observation
and analysis of the vision’s objectives and thematic areas shows that
knowledge/information (its generation, acquisition, utilization and possible
application) were not accorded the due attention as a tool for the vision’s success.
Added to the above statement is the fact that the research findings and intellectual
output of higher education institutions (HEIs) and research-based institutes in the
country mostly in the form of grey literature (i.e. unpublished technical/research
reports, manuals, theses and dissertations, monographs, etc) gather dust in their
institutions of origin, with little or no visibility, thereby affecting accessibility,
utilization and application. This paper therefore examines the role of institutional
libraries in developing open access repositories; infrastructure and facilities for
developing Open Access Repositories; and advocates for a national policy for the
development and management of open access repositories in institutions, where the
research findings and intellectual outputs of these institutions will be domiciled,
which will be easily accessible online for utilization and possible application in
various sectors of the economy for the realization of vision 20: 2020.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This paper therefore examines the role of institutional libraries in developing open access repositories; infrastructure and facilities for developing Open Access Repositories; and advocates for a national policy for the development and management of open access repositories in institutions, where the research findings and intellectual outputs of these institutions will be domiciled, which will be easily accessible online for utilization and possible application in various sectors of the economy for the realization of vision 20: 2020.
Keywords: Open Access Repositories, academic and research institutions, vision 20:2020, Nigeria Introduction There is no contradiction to the fact that information and knowledge have assumed position as one of the factors of production.
The statements and conferences include the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) by the Open Society Institute in 2001, the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing in 2003, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, the United Nations Summit on the Information Society Declaration of the Principles and Plan of Action, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Declaration on Access to Research Data From Public Funding, the International Federation of Library Association and Institutions' (IFLA) Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research Documentation in 2004.
As observed by Campbell (2006), numerous creative and useful services have evolved within the libraries of HEIs and research institutes in the digital age: providing quality learning spaces, creating metadata, offering virtual reference services, teaching information literacy skills, choosing resources and managing resource licenses, collecting and digitizing archival materials, maintaining digital repositories and providing access to them.