The SIMAD Research Repository is a strategic institutional platform of SIMAD University established to systematically collect, preserve, organize, manage, and disseminate the scholarly and research outputs of the University. The Repository serves as a central digital archive and knowledge management system that enhances the visibility, accessibility, integrity, and long-term preservation of the University’s intellectual contributions.
The Repository reflects SIMAD University’s commitment to strengthening research culture, institutional memory, academic visibility, and knowledge dissemination. It is designed to support open access principles, improve discoverability of research outputs, preserve institutional scholarship, and contribute to the University’s reputation as a research-active academic institution.
The SIMAD Research Repository operates under SIMAD University and aligns with the University’s academic, research, digital transformation, and knowledge management priorities. It functions as an institutional research infrastructure that supports faculties, institutes, centers, academic departments, researchers, postgraduate students, and university leadership.
The Repository may be managed within the broader governance and operational framework of the University’s Research and Consultancy Division, Center for Research and Development, and knowledge services, or another designated institutional structure, as determined by SIMAD University.
To be a trusted and visible institutional repository that preserves, showcases, and disseminates the scholarly and research contributions of SIMAD University to national, regional, and global audiences.
To provide a structured, secure, accessible, and sustainable digital platform for managing and promoting the research and academic outputs of SIMAD University, while strengthening knowledge sharing, institutional visibility, and long-term preservation of scholarly work.
The mandate of the SIMAD Research Repository is structured to ensure the systematic growth and professional management of the University’s intellectual assets.
Collect and preserve the scholarly and research outputs of SIMAD University
Provide a centralized digital platform for archiving and accessing institutional knowledge products
Improve the visibility, discoverability, and accessibility of research outputs
Support institutional knowledge management and long-term digital preservation
Contribute to research dissemination, academic recognition, and evidence-based engagement
Strengthen institutional systems for documentation, metadata management, and repository governance
To establish a reliable digital archive for the scholarly outputs of SIMAD University.
To improve access to theses, dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, reports, policy briefs, and other academic materials.
To enhance the national and international visibility of the University’s research contributions.
To support preservation, retrieval, and responsible sharing of institutional knowledge assets.
To promote standardized metadata, documentation, and repository management practices.
To strengthen the University’s research ecosystem through improved dissemination and knowledge utilization.
Comprehensive coverage of approved institutional knowledge outputs
Serving the entire academic and research community
The SIMAD Research Repository benefits students, academic staff, researchers, faculties, university leadership, external collaborators, policymakers, and society by preserving scholarly outputs, improving access to knowledge, strengthening research visibility, supporting academic quality and reporting, and enhancing the institutional reputation and societal contribution of SIMAD University.
Rector of SIMAD University
Serves as the primary executive authority over the institution and its research initiatives.
Deputy Rector for Research & Consultancy
Provides strategic oversight for all university research initiatives and repository goals.
Director, Center for Research and Development
Manages the development and implementation of repository-related research policies.
