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    Research productivity at the university of Zambia school of education: a retrospective assessment.
    (UNIVERISTY OF ZAMBIA, 2016) Daka, Kaoma L.; Chisunka-Mwila, Chitundu P.; M'kulama, Abel C.; Akakandelwa, Akakandelwa
    The study provides a picture of the University of Zambia School of Education faculty's research output to commemorate the University of Zambia's 50"^ Anniversary. The study aimed at investigating (a) the research output of the academic staff; (b) the types of literature mainly published the faculty and (c) authorship patterns and research collaboration patterns. The study confined its scope to the publications produced between 1966 and 2015 by the School of Education, published in Zambia as well as abroad. Bibliomctric techniques and regression analysis were employed as the measuring instruments. The data was collected from various sources including Google Scholar, annual reports, University of Zambia Library catalogues, personal resumes, and local bibliographies. The results indicates that (a) School of Education scholars prefer to publish in journals (511,48.9%), books and conference papers (474,45.4%); (b) the publication distribution fluctuated over the 50 year period but the moving average depicted a steady incremental trend; (c) a total of506 authors contributed to 1,045 publications whilst 309 are one-time authors.
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    Research visibility in the global South: towards increased online visibility of scholarly research output in Zambia.
    (IEEE International Conference in Information and Communication Technologies, 2018-12) Phiri, Lighton
    Scholarly research and publication form an integral part of the core functions of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is generally standard practice for HEIs to deposit scholarly output into publicly accessible Institutional Repositories (IRs). While Zambia has seen a rise in the number of HEIs, with a total of six Public HEIs and 60 Private HEIs, there is little online visibility of scholarly output generated by these HEIs. A bibliometric analysis, focused on electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), was conducted by harvesting scholarly publications from HEIs IRs, in order to demonstrate the low online visibility of scholarly research output in Zambia. We also outline technological initiatives, by using case examples from The University of Zambia, that can be employed to potentially increase the online visibility of HEIs scholarly output. Specifically, we illustrate how subject repositories and downstream aggregate services can be utilised to increase the visibility of scholarly output. The study shows that only two HEIs have established IRs, with noticeably low scholarly publications by academic staff. Furthermore, there is a noticeably long delay between the publication date of the ETDs and the ingestion date into the IRs. In addition, while not comprehensive, the proposed initiatives demonstrate technological initiates that could be employed to increase the visibility of scholarly research output.