The extent to which faculty members at the University of Benghazi are aware of the concept of digital repositories, and methods of using them

A case study of the university’s Faculty of Economics

Abstract

This research focused on the topic of open digital repositories from two perspectives. The first is a marketing perspective, where repositories are viewed as a tool that helps improve educational services and helps those working to provide them (faculty members) provide better and easier services. The second perspective is the public administration perspective, as this research focused on the use of digital repositories at a universityBenghazi, which is one of the public educational institutions, and the study aimed to present the advantages and characteristics of these repositories and to identify in a practical way the extent of the willingness of the target segment (faculty members) to use them by identifying the extent of their awareness of its concept, its benefits and its functions. This is an essential step before starting to implement it at the university. This exploratory study was designed as:A case study of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Benghazi. Data for this study were collected from 124 faculty members using a questionnaire form. The study reached several results, the most important of which is that although most faculty members are aware of the existence of open digital repositories and realize that they can help the professor perform his job in various scientific disciplines, there is a lack ofThey have no information about the features of these warehouses and how they work, and there is also a misconception about the difficulty of using them and requiring a high degree of technology to implement them. This study also presented a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the need to begin providing faculty members with the necessary knowledge to enable them to operate open digital repositories and benefit from them in the best way.