Ongaya, KizitoBagarukayo, EmilyOyo, BenedictOkello-Owiny, David2023-11-042023-11-042023Ongaya* Kizito, Bagarukayo Emily, Oyo Benedict, Okello-Owiny David (2023). Policy Challenges in Establishing Institutional Repository: Business Process Modeling of Universities in Uganda. Consortium of Uganda University Libraries, Annual Conference Proceedinghttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14270/244CUUL Conference proceedingWhile many universities are establishing institutional repositories to improve their online presence, there are policy challenges associated with the implementation of this innovation across universities in Uganda. The paper examines policy challenges associated with institutional repositories in 6 universities in Uganda. The study used exploratory method, with simple random stratified snow balling method over google forms. The findings shows that the ownership debate of institutional repositories is far from conclusion in institutions of higher learning with over 50% of respondents asserting that the university as an institution should own all publication and research data. On the other hand, they also believe that authors should be the principal owners of contents of their repositories. Availing publication on repository is also unsettling matter with 89.4% of scholars claiming rights of distribution irrespective of publisher’s restriction, while majority of scholars believe the Main Libraries in a university should take responsibility of dissemination, departments and individual authors are equally responsible for dissemination. Opinions are extremely divided on patent rights ownership across universities, faculties and departments. There is need for higher educational institutions to answer these unsettling questions by comprehensive stakeholders’ engagement in formulating policies that govern institutional repositories.enInstitutional RepositoriesPoliciesHigher Educational InstitutionsUniversitiesArticle