Institutional Repositories as Impetus for Curbing Plagiarism in Nigerian Universities

Literature Review

Institutional Repositories provide an immediate and futuristic valuable complement to the existing scholarly publishing model, Batane, (2010) and at the same time stimulate innovation in a new disaggregated publishing structure. The immediate benefit of the Institutional Repository Anbu, (n.d.) explained that all the research outputs which are collected and stored in its repository are unconditionally made available to its faculty and to all other members who are associated with it. This notwithstanding, as academic institutions and producers of primary research, it is saddled on it, the responsibility of capturing and preserving the intellectual output of their faculty, students, staff and other researchers in the university community.

Hence, Institutional Repositories may be defined as a type of digital library established by an institution, populated by the staff, researchers, students and other members of the institution and to be consulted by both members of the university and the outside world. Ogbomo and Muokebe, (2015).

An institutional repository is also seen as an online archive for collecting, preserving and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual outputs of an institution. This is particular with research institutions. The reason for the development of an institutional repository is to redefine the production and dissemination of intellectual property/materials of an academic community. Bailey, (2008).