This is a final year project at the university of Zambia (UNZA), conducted by five students of information and communication technologies supervised by Dr. Lighton Phiri. Below is the overall aim of this project.

The University of Zambia (UNZA), like most Higher Education Institutions, has set up an IR (“UNZA Repository Home") which, in part, is used for archiving faculty staff authored pre-prints and post-prints, and Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). However, while UNZA has had a functional repository for a considerable number of years, the content that is in the repository or IR does not represent all the work that has been done by its staff and students in terms of writing, In addition, most of the recent work by the university of Zambia staff and student's academic papers do not reflect in the institutional. This is enough to tell us that uploading literature or academic work on the IR is a major issue. Prior literature has identified a number of issues associated with the low uptake of IR content, some of which are lack of self-archiving practice, insufficient number Library staff available to deposit content and lack of IR awareness of faculty staff. One of the solutions that have been suggested involves the use of easy to use and effective self-archiving tools and it is the focus of this project.

This project is meant to design effective third-party self-archiving tools that will improve the uptake of IR content, the main focus is on coming up with tools that will allow the specification of relevant metadata elements and are easy to use.