1. MALREP a malaysian academic library repositories ZURAIDAH DARUS
Assalamualaikum and a very good morning. Today I would like to share with everyone about MALREP, a malaysian academic library repositories. But, before i went further, it is necessary for me to share a little bit information about the committee behind this product and it was Conferences of University Libraries and National Library of Malaysia (PERPUN). .
ZURAIDAH DARUS
SITI NORAIN ISMAIL
MOHD SHAZWAN NABIL SHUKOR

2. PERPUN
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There are twenty five academic libraries from Public and Government Link Company Universities collaborate under PERPUN.
ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
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3. PERPUN
The establishment of electronic library network between university libraries
Current information services
Subscription of databases
Publication delivery services between Malaysian academic libraries
PERPUN meets regularly to discuss various issues of common interest to it members. Those issues are:
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4. PERPUN’s IT PROJECT Inter Library Loan (MyUShare)
Malaysian Union List of Serials (MyULIS)
Malaysian Theses Online (MyTO)
Malaysian Academic Library Union Catalog (MALCat)
Malaysian Academic Repository (MALRep)
Since 2005, PERPUN under one of its special interest group, Malaysian System Librarian (MySyL) has actively produced a number of projects which benefits the Malaysian students and scholars. Among the projects are: Inter Library Loan (MyUShare), Malaysian Union List of Serials (MyULIS), Malaysian Theses Online (MyTO), Malaysian Academic Library Union Catalog (MALCat) and Malaysian Academic Repository (MALRep).
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5. 24 29 05 INTRODUCTIONS EPRINTS REPOSITORIES DSPACE
Today as our focus will be on MALRep.
Let me share with you a brief history on Institutional Repository in Malaysia. It was first build by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia on 26th January 2007 using eprints and stored its intellectual content including research data.
In order to ensure every other public universities have their own repository, PERPUN under one of its special interest group, Malaysian System Librarian (MySyL) has conducted series of workshop on building institutional repositories using eprints, once in Universiti Malaya and once in Universiti Utara Malaysia.
As a result, there are growing numbers of repositories. To be exact, in total there are about twenty nine repositories from twenty five academic libraries.
24 using Eprints and 5 using Dspace.
REPOSITORIES
DSPACE
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FORMAT
Those twenty nine repositories consist of more than three hundred thousands material from thirty five formats, such as article, conference or workshop item, thesis and teaching resources. Some of it are required for institutional credentials, while some are available full text. However, these twenty nine repositories are without cross-institutional search mechanism. Therefore, Malaysian Academic Library Repositories (MALRep) came in place.
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7. Discovery services for academic libraries repositories under PERPUN.
MALREP
Discovery services for academic libraries repositories under PERPUN.
Malaysian Academic Library Repositories (MALRep) aim is to accumulate metadata from twenty nine repositories at a database, and enable those intellectual output to be search cross-institutionally through one platform.
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8. TOOLS Open Access Software, Vufind build by Villanova University.
RedHat Enterprise Linux Operating System
MySQL database
PHP Programming Language
Apache Solr Search Engine
OAI-PMH
Malaysian Academic Library Repositories (MALRep) was created using an open access software called Vufind, which was build by Villanova University.
This services is using RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system, MySQL database and VuFind as an application system.
Meanwhile, Blueprint CSS Framework was used to provide user interface for desktop and Bootstrap HTML, CSS, and JS Framework was used for mobile user.
This application system was installed in UUM Data Centre virtual server.
Apache HTTPD Server services used for web services, along with MySQL database and PHP programming language. (LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Apache Solr together with LAMP is used as a search engine. **Solr is a reputable and fast search engine from Apache Lucene Project. It is able to perform full text searching, result display, faceted search and integration with databases.**
Indexing process is using Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) that was build by Open Archives Initiative.
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9. Institutional Repository
FRAMEWORK
Institutional Repository
UTeM UIAM
UiTM UM
UKM USM
UMS USIM
UTP UMK
UNIMAS UniSZA
UTHM UUM
MMU UniMAP
UMT UniKL
UTM OUM
UniMAS UNITEN
UMP UPM
UPSI
Data Provider
OAI-PMH
Harvest metadata
from Data Provider
and build index
Service Provider MALREP (UUM)
Next is how its work.
OAI framework can be divided into two; data provider and service provider.
Data provider supply metadata that will be harvested from each repository.
In return, service provider will create value added services such as search interface.
At a first phase, metadata from data provider was harvested, stored and ready to be index into Apache Solr. Latest harvested date is stored as it will be an indicator for when the record should be harvested until the current date. This method can reduce the load during the next indexing process.
At the second phase of indexing, harvested metadata will be place into Apache Solr one by one to ensure every records are able to be indexed.
Currently, metadata has been schedule to be harvested on weekly basis. At the moment, we were using manual approach in which one repository harvest at once.
USER
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10. INTERFACES And this is the user interface and how it works.
User may search using various access point such as title, author, subject, call number and ISBN/ISSN.
A list of result will be displayed. As you can see, institution that own the item will be displayed and if data provider do have file(s) available in their repository, you will
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11. CHALLENGES Issue Solution XSLT Header Incorrect
Each university was asked to review and update their repository software.
Time Out while harvesting
This situation mostly occurred with a weak internet connection. It resulted in incomplete metadata harvesting. The only solution is to redo until the process is complete.
High Memory Usage
Increase memory and tuning the system when required
Data Standardization
University must work together on setting the data standard to enable effective searching.
University Policy
Metadata won’t be harvested if data provider didn’t allow it.
Repository Address Changed
Harvest and reindex again
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12. FUTURE PLANNING User Interface Promotion
Since it has been live, MALRep interface just having a slight changes, twice. Major user interface update will be done soon.
It is our responsibilities to ensure that public aware of MALRep existence for their own benefit. Thus, we will be more proactive on promoting this effort through various medium.
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13. 25 350,579 OAI-PMH E-PRINTS DSPACE UA GLC ACADEMIC LIBRARIES 294034
TOTAL RECORDS
OAI-PMH
HARVESTED WITH
E-PRINTS
DSPACE
FROM
294034
Last but not least, as of today, MALRep manage to harvest and indexed three hundred fifty thousand five hundred seventy nine metadata from twenty four academic library.
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14. 400,256
PAGE VIEW
As for the page view, as of today the number of page view is four hundred thousands and two hundred fifty six from various country.
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