THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLOUD-BASED UNIVERSITY RESEARCH REPOSITORY SOFTWARE USING A CONFIGURABLE SUBSCRIPTION MODEL

Abstract

With more research that are added every year of every school calendar, there is no doubt the researches fell in a file or stack of hardbound that resides in the library. Unfortunately, this research should not only settle on the shelves. Making them electronically available as references, or to be cited are the ones it truly deserves. This paper emphasizes the need of a cloud-based research repository to be implemented in every university that can be utilized to serve its purpose. This research repository is based on an online publication and subscription model. Online publication provides reading sources via internet in which is accessible and more convenient to most people. The repository will also adapt the concept of configurability as the users may have their own preferences with regards on how they publish or subscribe a paper. These would give them more options on deciding how they would publish and or avail paper references. Research which are within the repository that will be referenced, cited, or downloaded has corresponding renumeration based on the approval of the University. In this way more researchers will continue to provide more scholarly output to be published and to gain more citing, downloads and eventually more renumerations. The repository has the potential to expand as more researchers will be turned its service and would be beneficial to stakeholders. The respondents on this paper shows the acceptability of the process making more likely to work in any educational institution. Moreover, as time progress, researchers and organizations would avail to use the software in accordance with their needs as well as the preferences of its user with the configurability of the software, thus providing a continuous educational-business process to all stakeholders. And with the current situation of the global pandemic heterogenous access to resources are all being sought.

Keywords

• online publishing
• subscription model
• research repository
• configurable subscription