Upspace
Encyclopedia
UPSpace is the name of the open access digital institutional repository
of the University of Pretoria
, South Africa
. A digital institutional repository in the context of a higher education institution can be defined as “a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”. UPSpace contains a collection of the intellectual/ research output produced by past and current researchers of the University of Pretoria. The spectrum of material covered in UPSpace includes the following:
Historical/ archival material - after it has been digitized; Research articles (scholarly publications); Popular research material; Unpublished research; Inaugural addresses; Conference proceedings; Technical reports; Open lectures; Data sets, and many more.
The main objectives of an institutional repository are: 1) to enhance the visibility of the knowledge products created by an institution's members by providing easy open access, and 2) to preserve the intellectual output of the members of that community for years to come.
The open source platform, DSpace
, which was developed by an MIT-Hewlett Packard alliance, is used for UPSpace.
Institutional repository
An Institutional repository is an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating - in digital form - the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution....
of the University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. A digital institutional repository in the context of a higher education institution can be defined as “a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”. UPSpace contains a collection of the intellectual/ research output produced by past and current researchers of the University of Pretoria. The spectrum of material covered in UPSpace includes the following:
Historical/ archival material - after it has been digitized; Research articles (scholarly publications); Popular research material; Unpublished research; Inaugural addresses; Conference proceedings; Technical reports; Open lectures; Data sets, and many more.
The main objectives of an institutional repository are: 1) to enhance the visibility of the knowledge products created by an institution's members by providing easy open access, and 2) to preserve the intellectual output of the members of that community for years to come.
The open source platform, DSpace
DSpace
DSpace is an open source software package that provides the tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly used as the basis for an institutional repository. It supports a wide variety of data, including books, theses, 3D digital scans of objects, photographs, film, video, research data...
, which was developed by an MIT-Hewlett Packard alliance, is used for UPSpace.
Communities & Collections on UPSpace
- Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA)
- Department of Library Services
- Economic & Management Sciences
- Education
- Education Innovation
- Engineering, Built Environment & Information Technology
- Health Sciences
- Humanities
- Law
- Mapungubwe Collections
- Natural & Agricultural Sciences
- South African National Veterinary Repository
- Special Collections
- Theology
- University of Pretoria Archives
- Veterinary Science