Digital assets implementations in institutional repository in Gulf universities

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The study dealt with the Digital Assets implementations in academic institutions repository in the GCC countries.

The study analyses the most important applications and their contribution to the dissemination and knowledge exchange and scientific research outputs among the faculty members, researchers, and students in the Gulf region.

Also, the study includes analyzing the strategies of digital repositories in publishing the scientific and academic studies and the availability of intellectual property in digital repositories as a component of Arabic digital content.

The study has focused on the available modern tools in digital institutional repositories for the management of digital content, tools for organizing the content, as well as how to build and manage the digital content in the institutional repositories in the Gulf Universities.

The study used descriptive analysis, survey, case study, and statistical method, to determine the impact of institutional repositories on providing up-to-date information to researchers and faculty, as well as to explore and analyze available research tools on the Internet.

One of the most important findings of this study was that many Gulf universities still need to create institutional digital repositories on the Internet, to serve the educational and research process, and the study found that the available digital assets in institutional repositories in Gulf universities differ in type, but 80% of this digital content was dissertations, thesis and published articles in high-impact journals by faculty members, and there is a real use of digital assets but there is only twelve institutional repositories allow public users for free access to its assets, while the rest of the repositories require conditions and rights to access and use these assets