African Digital Research Repositories: Mapping the Landscape

This data set accompanies the text at doi 10.5281/zenodo.3732273. // Correspondence: JH: [e-mail], SK: [e-mail]

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.3732273.     
Data set doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3732172 // available in different formats (pdf, xls, ods, csv)

AfricarXiv in collaboration with the International African Institute (IAI) presents 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).

Objective

The map of African digital repositories was created as a resource to be used in activities addressing the following aims:

Improving the discoverability of African research and publications 

Enhance the interoperability of existing and emerging African repositories

Identify ways through which digital scholarly search engines can enhance the discoverability of African research

We promote the dissemination of research-based knowledge from African repositories as part of a bigger landscape that also includes online journals, research data repositories, and scholarly publishers to enhance the interconnectivity and accessibility of such repositories across and beyond the African continent and to contribute to a more granular understanding of the continent’s scholarly resources.  

Data archiving and maintenance

The map and corresponding dataset are hosted on the AfricArXiv website under ‘Resources’ at https://info.africarxiv.org/african-digital-research-repositories/. The listing is not exhaustive and therefore we encourage any repositories relevant for the African continent not listed here to the submission form at https://forms.gle/CnyGPmBxN59nWVB38, or to notify the International African Institute (email [e-mail]). Both AfricArXiv and IAI will continue to maintain the list of repositories as a resource for African researchers and other stakeholders including international African studies communities.

本数据集配套于DOI为10.5281/zenodo.3732273的学术文献。// 通讯作者：JH：[e-mail]，SK：[e-mail]

可视化图谱：https://kumu.io/access2perspectives/african-digital-research-repositories
数据集下载地址：https://tinyurl.com/African-Research-Repositories
存档托管地址：https://info.africarxiv.org/african-digital-research-repositories/
数据提交表单：https://forms.gle/CnyGPmBxN59nWVB38

授权协议：文本内容与可视化图谱采用CC-BY-SA 4.0协议 // 数据集采用CC0（公共领域）协议 // 各独立数据库的授权规则由其自身制定

预印本DOI：10.5281/zenodo.3732273。数据集DOI：10.5281/zenodo.3732172 // 提供pdf、xls、ods、csv等多种格式下载

AfricArXiv与国际非洲研究所（International African Institute, IAI）合作推出非洲数字研究文献仓储交互式图谱。本项目依托IAI自2016年起开展的前期研究工作，该工作旨在识别并收录非洲境内的机构研究仓储，最初聚焦于非洲大学图书馆所属的仓储。IAI此前发布的相关资源可通过https://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/repositories访问。

本交互式图谱拓展了IAI的前期研究范畴，新增收录了组织类、政府类及国际类研究仓储，并对各研究仓储间的交互关系进行可视化呈现。本数据集聚焦于维基百科编者（2020年3月）所定义的学术作品机构仓储。

### 项目目标
本非洲数字仓储图谱的构建，旨在为达成以下目标的相关活动提供资源支撑：
1. 提升非洲研究成果与学术出版物的可发现性
2. 增强现有及新兴非洲研究仓储的互操作性
3. 探索数字学术搜索引擎可用于提升非洲研究可发现性的可行路径

我们致力于推广非洲仓储中基于研究的知识传播，这一工作属于涵盖在线期刊、研究数据仓储及学术出版社的更大学术生态的组成部分，旨在提升非洲大陆内外各类仓储的互联互通性与可访问性，并助力学界更精准地理解非洲大陆的学术资源全貌。

### 数据存档与维护
本图谱及配套数据集托管于AfricArXiv网站的「资源」栏目，访问地址为https://info.africarxiv.org/african-digital-research-repositories/。本收录列表并非穷尽式清单，因此我们诚邀尚未被收录的非洲大陆相关仓储通过上述数据提交表单（https://forms.gle/CnyGPmBxN59nWVB38）提交信息，或联系国际非洲研究所（邮箱：[e-mail]）。AfricArXiv与IAI将持续维护该仓储列表，为非洲研究者及包括国际非洲研究社群在内的各类利益相关方提供资源支持。