Mekelle University Institutional Repository MU-IR

Overview

The Mekelle University Institutional Repository (MU-IR) is the open-access digital repository of Mekelle University, located in Mekelle (Mek'ele), the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. It operates on the DSpace platform and serves as the primary online archive for the university's scholarly and research output. The repository is registered in international open repository directories and participates in Ethiopia's broader academic digital infrastructure.

Collections and Holdings

The MU-IR collects and preserves scholarly works created by Mekelle University's faculty, students, and researchers. Holdings include theses, dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, books, and book chapters spanning all academic disciplines represented at the university, including health and medicine, engineering, agriculture, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The repository supports open access to research conducted at one of Ethiopia's major public universities, which has participated in numerous international research collaborations including European Horizon 2020 projects.

Institutional Context

Mekelle University is one of Ethiopia's established public universities, located in Tigray. The university library maintains a physical collection of over 165,000 items and operates digital services including the institutional repository. The university has been involved in research on water resource management, health sciences, agricultural biotechnology, and post-conflict development, among other fields.

Access

The repository is publicly accessible online at repository.mu.edu.et. Materials are available for open access download. Researchers can browse by community or search by title, author, or subject. The repository participates in the Ethiopian Universities' Repository network.