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How to Use the Toolkit

The toolkit provides a roadmap for establishing and operating a digital repository in your institution. It is a compilation of concepts, tools and links to resources, all organized in logical steps reflecting the key stages in a repository development project.  

The content is presented in such a way that you are introduced to concepts and approaches in combination with links for further reading. You may as well imagine in a literal sense that this is a box full of tools to support any part of your repository establishment and management undertaking. Relevant resources are linked from the different sections, but also available in the resources library.

It is recommended that you read the section Understanding key terminologies and concepts. This section provides basic information on concepts and terminologies that are frequently employed throughout this toolkit to describe various terms and processes.

It is not mandatory to read the toolkit linearly. But it is crucial to understand the toolkit as a full set of tools that are arranged in sequential manner based on perceived logical steps when implementing a repository project.

Acknowledgements

Besides drawing on vast resources of the Internet and workshops materials, we would like to acknowledge the following individuals for their direct contributions, feedback and advices,

1. Avinash Bikha of the European Union who has been KIT staff until recently. He has been extensively involved in the planning process of the toolkit development.
2. Bart Veenstra, also the former employee of KIT, who has contributed immensely to technical chapter of the toolkit.
3. Eryna Kuchman of Electronic Information For Libraries (eIFL), Iryna has been such a great help in the entire development of the toolkit and its promotion. She has contributed to several chapters mainly on open access, policies and advocacy part of the toolkit.
4. Helena Asamoah-Hassan of Kwame NKurumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), she is a major contributor of the IR policy chapter, in which she has drawn from KNUST policy as a case study.
5. Prof. Japhet Otike of Moi University. He has written the entire chapter of the toolkit on copyright.
6. Hamisi Nguli, a retiree of Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology. He is had read and review the entire toolkit that include harmonizing the different parts of the toolkit into one story.
7. Abednego Corletey, a repository officer at Kwame NKurumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He has been working tirelessly on technical chapter of the toolkit, including development of Toolkit DSpace liveCD
8. Kuepper Barbara, the former employee of Royal Tropical Institute, she is the one who has been editing and restructuring the entire toolkit on the website.

And many others, who directly or indirectly has made this compilation possible such as Peter Burnet of INASP and other collegues at KIT ILS