Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of
opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully …

This article chronicles more than 30 years of public opinion, politics, and law and policy on
privacy and confidentiality that have had far-reaching consequences for access by the social …

The study investigated the awareness and use of open access (OA) channels for scholarly
publishing by researchers at selected universities in Kenya. A sample of 341 faculty …

Much research has been done on Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) at African
universities but the results are inaccessible as they remain scattered all over in researchers' …

Only science, technology and research would alleviate the intertwined social and economic
challenges of developing nations such as Ethiopia. This study adopts a qualitative approach …

Traditionally repositories have been seen as either supporting a researcher's activities
throughout what is traditionally referred to as the" research lifecycle" or storing learning …

Despite the establishment of institutional repositories (IRS) in Zimbabwe's public
universities, content for these repositories remains untangible. The purpose of this study was …

This paper presents a policy decision tree for digital information management in academic
libraries. The decision tree is a policy guide, which offers alternative access and …

The present report examines policies and strategies that aim to foster open access (OA) and
discusses how OA policies are monitored and enforced. The analysis is supported by …

Governments across the world are increasing the openness and transparency of their
services, a move also taking place in the education sector in some countries, signifying …