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Students’ Perception of Building a Digital Repository for the Intellectual Outputs of Saudi Scholarship Students


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The intellectual output of students may receive insufficient attention in terms of preservation and distribution. The present study focuses on the perceptions of students toward a digital repository for collecting the works of students awarded scholarships. The study found that majority of participants have the desire to archive or publish in a digital repository because they appreciate the quality of students’ research and trust it when writing projects and study reports. However, only a small proportion of participants understood about digital repositories and a few of them had previous experience in publishing their works online. The findings indicated that copyright infringement is the biggest concern that prevents participants from depositing their work, followed by the unawareness about a university repository or appropriate digital repositories that accept students’ work.

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Archives, Archiving Students’ Work, Digital Repositories, Institutional Repositories, Open Access Publishing, Saudi Culture Missions, Scholarship Students.
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Abdullah Almobarraz
Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)
Saudi Arabia


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Abdullah Almobarraz
Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Saudi Arabia

Abstract


The intellectual output of students may receive insufficient attention in terms of preservation and distribution. The present study focuses on the perceptions of students toward a digital repository for collecting the works of students awarded scholarships. The study found that majority of participants have the desire to archive or publish in a digital repository because they appreciate the quality of students’ research and trust it when writing projects and study reports. However, only a small proportion of participants understood about digital repositories and a few of them had previous experience in publishing their works online. The findings indicated that copyright infringement is the biggest concern that prevents participants from depositing their work, followed by the unawareness about a university repository or appropriate digital repositories that accept students’ work.

Keywords


Archives, Archiving Students’ Work, Digital Repositories, Institutional Repositories, Open Access Publishing, Saudi Culture Missions, Scholarship Students.

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