Development of an Institutional Repository for the Storage and Retrieval of Graduate Theses in Computer Science
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Abstract
Institutional repositories bring together all university’s research under one umbrella, with the aim to preserve and provide access to those resources on demand. Institutional repositories capture, preserve and disseminate a university’s collective intellectual capacity and can as well serve as a meaningful indicator of an institution’s academic quality. This study was aimed at the development of an institutional repository that can be used for the storage and retrieval of information about graduate thesis thereby curbing the likelihood of duplication of existing studies. The study identified the functional and non-functional requirements of the system following which the design of the system was specified using the unified modeling language (UML) tools. The system was implemented using Web 2.0 technologies. The results of the study showed that the system provided an online institutional repository which improved the quality of research conducted by graduate students by eliminating duplication.