Open Access Repositories : What are they and their significance to African Researchers?
What do you think an open access repository is? According to Queens Mary University of London in London, UK, a digital repository is an online archive for the storage of digital objects; these can range from digital archives, moving or still image galleries, manuscripts, anything that is in electronic format and needs a place to be stored either in the short or longer term.An Open Access Repository on the other hand is a digital repository where the content is freely available to download and reuse (sometimes with restrictions), where no login or subscription is required. Africa is home to several Digital repository . In Ghana, the University of Ghana has an open access repository called the University of Ghana Digital Collections(UGSpace) . UGSpace is the institutional repository of the University. It is accessible to everyone around the country, continent and the world. One can find research on Ghanaian and African history dating back to 1469. You can easily creat