Discover
Search beyond a single repository.
Give students, faculty and researchers a coordinated way to discover scholarly outputs from participating institutions and connected research sources.
UniDiscovery — Strengthening Research Visibility
One Search. Many Universities. Greater Research Visibility.
UniDiscovery connects university research, institutional repositories and approved scholarly resources through one coordinated discovery environment—helping institutions increase the visibility of their scholarship while giving researchers a broader and simpler discovery experience.
Built for universities. Designed for collaboration. Ready for wider research visibility.
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University ARepository
University BRepository
University CRepository
UniDiscovery
Coordinated discovery
One Search
Broader discovery
The research visibility challenge
Africa's Research Should Be Easier to Discover.
Increasing research production is essential. But producing research is only part of the challenge. Research that already exists in African universities must also be visible, discoverable, connected and easier to use.
VISIBLE.
DISCOVERABLE.
CONNECTED.
UniDiscovery is being built for that challenge.
Extend the discovery layer
Your Repository Shouldn't Be an Island.
Universities across Africa already hold valuable scholarship in institutional repositories: theses, dissertations, journal articles, conference papers, faculty publications, student research and other scholarly outputs. Yet these collections are often discovered only by people who already know where to look.
Your University Repository
Your systems. Your identity.
UniDiscovery
Wider discovery layer
Researchers
Across participating institutions
Your university brings its scholarship into the discovery network. The network brings wider discovery to your scholarship.
What UniDiscovery does
One Discovery Environment. Multiple Research Opportunities.
Showcase
Make institutional scholarship easier to find.
Increase the discoverability of theses, dissertations, faculty publications, student scholarship and other approved research outputs.
Connect
Connect research across institutions.
Participate in a growing environment where universities can make scholarship more discoverable across institutional and national boundaries.
Govern
Discovery without abandoning access rules.
Open resources can remain open while subscribed or restricted resources continue to follow the appropriate institutional, consortium and entitlement arrangements.
Strengthen Visibility
Give university research a wider digital presence.
Help researchers, departments and institutions gain greater opportunities to be discovered through a coordinated scholarly discovery environment.
A simpler discovery experience
One Search. Many Universities.
A researcher should not need to know every university repository URL before discovering relevant African scholarship.
UniDiscovery is designed to bring participating university collections into a coordinated search experience while retaining clear institutional provenance.
Search once. Discover across institutions.
University A
Research title from an institutional repository
Thesis · Institutional Repository
University B
Faculty publication related to the same topic
Article · Research Collection
University C
Another relevant scholarly output
Dissertation · Institutional Repository
How participation works
How Your University Can Participate
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Join UniDiscovery
Begin an institutional participation and onboarding conversation with the UniDiscovery team.
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Connect Your Institutional Repository
Work with the UniDiscovery team to connect eligible repository collections and approved research sources.
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Retain Your Institutional Identity
Your university remains the source and identity behind its scholarly outputs.
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Become Discoverable
Approved metadata can participate in the wider UniDiscovery discovery environment.
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Extend Research Reach
Students, researchers and participating institutions gain new opportunities to discover your university's scholarship.
Who it is for
Built for the University Research Ecosystem
University Leadership
Strengthen institutional research visibility, collaboration and scholarly presence.
University Libraries
Extend repository discovery and provide users with a broader scholarly search experience.
Research Directorates
Improve opportunities for institutional and researcher outputs to be found and used.
ICT & Repository Teams
Connect existing institutional systems without requiring the university to surrender its platform identity.
Library Consortia
Coordinate institutional participation, discovery and appropriately governed resource arrangements across member universities.
Regional collaboration
Connect Your University. Connect African Research.
African university research should be discoverable beyond individual campuses and national boundaries. UniDiscovery is designed to support institutional and consortium collaboration while preserving the identity, governance and contribution of participating universities.
Beginning in Uganda. Built for wider collaboration.
UniDiscovery is currently being piloted in cooperation with the Consortium of Uganda University Libraries (CUUL) as part of the development of a stronger shared research discovery environment.
We welcome conversations with universities and library consortia in Rwanda, Kenya and other countries interested in institutional research visibility and collaborative discovery.
AFRICA
Uganda
Rwanda
Kenya
Regional opportunity — not a claim of current membership
A broader platform
More Than a Repository Search Engine
UniDiscovery is being developed as a broader university research discovery, visibility and resource-governance platform.
Institutional Research
Repositories, catalogues and university scholarly collections.
Open Scholarly Resources
Approved open-access and research discovery sources.
Governed Resources
Institutional, consortium and subscription resources where access is supported by the appropriate authority and entitlement.
Discovery can be shared. Access remains governed.
Institutional value
What Does Your University Gain?
- Wider discoverability for institutional research
- Greater visibility for faculty and student scholarship
- Broader research discovery for university users
- Participation in collaborative university discovery
- Clear institutional provenance for research outputs
- A platform designed for governed scholarly-resource access
- A foundation for wider regional research collaboration
Your research already exists.
Let's make it easier to discover.
Institutional demonstrations & partnerships
What Could UniDiscovery Mean for Your University?
We welcome demonstrations and partnership conversations with university leadership, libraries, research directorates, ICT teams and library consortia.
Request a UniDiscovery Demonstration
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