MKU scores big in content provision

Abstract

MKU e-content provision climps up in the global web ranking Mt Kenya University (MKU) has climbed up the E-repositories rankings both in the country and the continent.

The Webometrics ranking of electronic repositories (E-repositories) has ranked MKU at position two in the country, behind the University of Nairobi’s digital repository. MKU was also ranked position 22 in results released in mid-july. MKU’S E-repository is a rich open access archive for collecting, preserving and disseminating digital material of scholarly work, with its web policy doing well in stimulating electronic publication of quality scholarly works making it available to audiences across the globe. The content is provided under the Open Access Policy that the university has adopted,” said Victoria Munyao, MKU’S librarian. The University of Nairobi’s digital repository emerged first in the country, sixth in the continent and 245th globally.