African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape
Originally published on Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.3732273
Authors & Contributors in alphabetical order
Bezuidenhout, Louise, Havemann, Jo, Kitchen, Stephanie, De Mutiis, Anna, & Owango, Joy. (2020). African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape [Data set]. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3732172
Visual Map: https://kumu.io/access2perspectives/african-digital-research-repositories
Dataset: https://tinyurl.com/African-Research-Repositories
Archived at https://info.africarxiv.org/african-digital-research-repositories/
Submission form: https://forms.gle/CnyGPmBxN59nWVB38
Licensing: Text and Visual Map – CC-BY-SA 4.0 // Dataset – CC0 (Public Domain) // The licensing of each database is determined by the database itself
Preprint doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3732274
Data set doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3732172 // available in different formats (pdf, xls, ods, csv)
The International African Institute (IAI, https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org) in collaboration with AfricarXiv (https://info.africarxiv.org) present an interactive map of African digital research literature repositories. This drew from IAI’s earlier work from 2016 onwards to identify and list Africa-based institutional repositories that focused on identifying repositories based in African university libraries. Our earlier resources are available at https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories.
The interactive map extends the work of the IAI to include organizational, governmental and international repositories. It also maps the interactions between research repositories. In this dataset, we focus on institutional repositories for scholarly works, as defined by Wikipedia contributors (March 2020).
