Abel M'kulama: Scholarly Communication—IRs and Self-Archiving
Channel: Lighton Phiri
Date: 18/07/2020

Abel M'kulama gave a talk titled "Communication: IRs and Self-Archiving" on Monday, July 17, 2020, at 17H00 GMT+2. 

This talk is part of a series of seminars organised as part of the "LIS 5310: Information Systems and Technologies for Information Management" [1] postgraduate course in the Department of Library and Information Science [2] at The University of Zambia [3]

## Video Timeline
00:00:00 Introduction

## Title

Communication: IRs and Self-Archiving

## Abstract

Open access (OA) has emerged as a major means of communicating scholarly outputs in the research community. It is considered as a major and efficient alternative to the traditional method of communicating scholarly outputs. Academic and research institutions have adopted OA and are establishing institutional repositories (IRs) and encourage researchers to deposit and/or self-archive digital copies of their research outputs to allow for free access to scientific publications. While the number of academic institutions establishing IRs is rising, many still struggle with the challenge of populating and making IRs work. This presentation looks at making OA through IRs in academic and research institutions. How that IRs are major vehicle for championing OA publishing in Zambia and worldwide. It looks at strategies that are used to make IRs and self-archiving successful in ensuring the OA route to scholarly publications is successful. 


## Biography

Abel M’kulama is a member of staff in the LIS department [2], He teaches Knowledge Management, Cataloguing and Classification and Electronic Records Management Modules. His research interests include: OA, Research Data Management, Information Literacy, E-learning and E-learning technologies, Knowledge Management and Digital Curation.

[1] http://lis.unza.zm/~lightonphiri/teaching/unza/2020/lis5310
[2] http://lis.unza.zm
[3] https://www.unza.zm