CEARL + ADLSN = Collaborative repository for Ethiopian academic and research institutions
Increase visibility and availability of student research outputs
The growth of academic institutions in Ethiopia, currently over 30, has seen an exponential increase of research output by Master’s and Doctoral degrees’ students and researchers. However, the accessibility, usability and management of thesis and dissertations has become a big challenge.
Thanks to funding from the Elsevier Foundation the Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) and the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN) are working in partnership to:
1. Implement repositories. To build on, and scale up the Addis Ababa University institutional repository to become an open, national repository for academic research results from universities across Ethiopia. As well as to build 30 institutional repositories across Ethiopia.
2. Conduct training. There is a two-prong approach to capacity building (a) training for librarians and IT staff on how to use and manage repositories; (b) training for researchers and students on how to effectively use e-resources to improve the quality of their research; and how to upload their research output to repositories and its benefits.
Project Outcomes
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Partner Institutions
Near Addis Ababa:
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Adama University |
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Addis Ababa Science and Technology University |
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Addis Ababa University |
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Civil Service University |
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Hawassa University |
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Outside Addis Ababa
[coming soon]
Project team
Teklemichael T. Wordofa, Project Leader (Inside the organization)
Teklemichael is with over fifteen years of progressive experience in teaching, practice and research. Currently, he works at the Addis Ababa University Libraries Computer and Information Retrieval Centre as Systems Librarian and digitization expert as well as teaching at the School of Information science. He is the Coordinator for the Consortium of Ethiopian Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) and the Program for the Enhancement of Research Information (PERII). He worked as project manager at the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna, Austria for 7 years and as such has strong background in managing projects of this sort. Teklemichael is also in the management team of the African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN), and serves as standing committee member of the International Conference on African Digital Library and Archives (ICADLA). He has implemented a digital institutional repository at Forum for Social Studies in Ethiopia with partner from KIT.
Africa J. Bwamkuu, Advisor
Africa is a former staff of t the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in the Netherlands as an ICT Advisor/Trainer. He is currently work as independent consultant at Window 2 Africa, and serves as Board president of African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN). He has over 10 years of working experience in the area of ICT & Digital Libraries technical and management. Africa is one of the founders of African Digital Library Support Network (ADLSN). He has extensive experience working in African region as well as in Ethiopia. Recently, he implemented a digital institutional repository at Forum for Social Studies in Ethiopia. Currently and managed a program run by KIT and the Association of African Universities (AAU) to strengthen the capacity of African institutes to establish and manage digital repositories.
Project Milestones
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January – December 2014 |
Focus on institutions near Addis Ababa |
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Build a coalition of partners |
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Hold partners seminar |
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Define specifications |
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Implement repositories |
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Hold a 3-day workshop at each participating institution |
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Implement harvester |
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Hold train the trainer workshop #1 with participating institutions |
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Hold train the trainer workshop #2 participating institutions |
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January – December 2015 |
Focus on institutions outside of Addis Ababa |
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Build coalition of partners |
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Hold partners seminar |
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Define specifications |
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Implement repositories |
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Hold a 3-day workshop at each participating institution |
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Implement harvester |
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Hold train the trainer workshop #1 with participating institution |
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Hold train the trainer workshop #2 participating institution |
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December 2015 |
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Finalization of a mechanism for populating the central repository facility at Addis Ababa University |