Repositorios institucionales: una vía hacia el acceso, la visibilidad y la preservación de la producción científica
Jornadas Científicas y Talleres
Zaragoza, 14 y 15 de Diciembre de 2006
Presentadas por el Grupo de trabajo para la implementación de Repositorios Institucionales, OS-REPOSITORIOS
Estas Jornadas-talleres responden a una iniciativa del grupo español OS-repositorios, y su objetivo es una toma de contacto y puesta en común de temas relacionados con los repositorios institucionales y el movimiento open access, así como presentar algunas de las iniciativas que se están desarrollando en nuestro país.
Están dirigidas a todos aquellos que muestren su interés por el tema y principalmente a bibliotecarios, gestores de la información, investigadores y responsables de políticas en instituciones académicas y de investigación
Jueves 14 diciembre
Presentación de las jornadas. Jesús Tramullas
Reme Melero. El significado de los repositorios institucionales
Taller: Interoperatividad y proveedores de servicios. Jordi Prats, Alicia López Medina, Luis Zorita, Fernanda Peset
Alice Keefer. Los autores, el autoarchivo y los repositorios institucionales
José Antonio Frías, Tania Santiago. Repositorios institucionales en las universidades españolas
Conferencia invitada.Leo Waaijers. DARE Programme in the Netherlands and the EU DRIVER project.
Viernes 15 de diciembre
Comunicaciones orales: Iniciativas-repositorios en España.
UNED. Luis Zorita, Alicia López
IATA (CSIC). Carlos Benito
Univ. Complutense. Andoni CalderónUniv. Salamanca. J.A. Frias, Tania Santiago
UPC. Jordi Prats
DIALNET. Joaquín León
Consorcio Madroño. Juan Corrales
CBUC/CESCA. Ramón Ros, Ricard de la Vega
30 may 2007
La Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya y los repositorios digitales
El Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Catalunya (CBUC) tiene como misión mejorar los servicios bibliotecarios a través de la cooperación.
Actualmente posee una Biblioteca Digital y cuatro repositorios: uno para tesis doctorales, uno para revistas científicas y académicas; uno para literatura gris de investigación y uno para la memoria digital de Catalunya.
Todos los repositorios digitales en los que el CBUC está implicado tienen tres objetivos claramente definidos. Pretenden:
· facilitar la edición digital de documentos ya que esta no es igual de fácil para todas
las personas o entidades que actualmente generan documentación científica,
· proporcionar un acceso colectivo a documentos producidos en diferentes
instituciones y aumentar así la visibilidad de los mismos por el simple hecho de ser accesibles desde receptáculos que, por sus dimensiones, tienen una facilidad mayor de ser conocidos por los usuarios,
· garantizar la persistencia y preservación de los documentos.
TDR - Tesis Doctorales en Red
El primer de los repositorios que se creó fue en 1999 para tesis doctorales, TDR (Tesis Doctorales en Red). Forma parte de la Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) y usa el protocolo de interoperabilidad de la Open Archives Initiative (OAI), lo que permite incrementar la visibilidad de las tesis al ofrecerlas conjuntamente con otros repositorios de tesis internacionales, como por ejemplo OAIster.
Desde mayo de 2007 TDR incorpora la opción de realizar una búsqueda global en otros repositorios españoles de tesis, a través también del uso del protocolo OAI.
Contiene las tesis doctorales leídas en las universidades de Catalunya y de otras comunidades autónomas.
Actualmente incluye más de 3.000 tesis procedentes de 14 universidades diferentes y permite la consulta remota a través de Internet del texto completo de las tesis, así como realizar búsquedas por autor/a, director/a, título, tema de la tesis, universidad y departamento donde se ha leído, año de defensa, etc.
RECERCAT
A lo largo del 2005 se creó RECERCAT que es el repositorio institucional de documentos digitales para la literatura gris de investigación de las universidades de Cataluña. Antes de ponerlo en funcionamiento se tomaron dos decisiones importantes. En primer lugar se establecio un conjunto de metadatos de nivel mínimo y uno de nivel completo con especificaciones semánticas y sintácticas para los mismos. Los metadatos de nivel mínimo son informados por los autores de los documentos y los de nivel completo por bibliotecarios. En segundo lugar, se fijaron los procesos de entrada de datos. Estos suponen determinar quien introduce los documentos, qué metadatos se introducen y quién lo hace y qué procesos de control se establecen.
RECERCAT funciona con el programa de código abierto DSpace.
Actualmente hay 12 universidades que introducen materiales en el repositorio.
Los documentos se introducen a través de dos procedimientos diferentes: de forma directa por los propios autores o por algún servicio de la universidad o centro de investigación; o bien de forma indirecta introduciéndolos en repositorios institucionales propios y usando metadatos estándares que permetan recoger automáticamente los datos y ofrecerlos a consulta a través de RECERCAT. Cualquiera de los dos procedimientos garantizará la accesibilidad a los documentos de una facultad, departamento, instituto, etc. agrupados por éstos.
RACO - Revistas Catalanas con Acceso Abierto
A finales de 2004 nace RACO, un depósito cooperativo desde el que se pueden consultar, en acceso abierto, los artículos a texto completo de revistas científicas, culturales y eruditas catalanas.
Sus finalidades son tres: ayudar a que revistas científicas publicadas sólo en soporte impreso puedan ser accesibles de forma paralela en formato electrónico, permitir el acceso conjunto a los artículos publicados en todas las revistas incluidas en RACO, y facilitar la preservación de las revistas electrónicas publicadas en Cataluña.
RACO funciona con el programa de código libre OJS, desarrollado por el Public Knowledge Project (PKP) con el objetivo de fomentar el acceso a la investigación, facilitando la gestión y publicación de revistas científicas. Esta aplicación permite hacer, entre otras, búsquedas por autor/a y/o título de artículo y por título, materia o institución editora de la revista. De cada artículo se puede consultar la citación bibliográfica recomendada, las estadísticas de consulta, los metadatos que lo describen, recomendar lecturas a compañeros, etc. Asimismo ofrece la posibilidad de suscribirse al servicio de alerta de cualquiera de las revistas que incluye para recibir por correo electrónico el aviso de nuevos números publicados.
Los sumarios y el texto completo de los artículos son introducidos en RACO por las propias instituciones editoras. En la mayoría de las revistas se ofrece el texto completo de todos los números publicados. Sin embargo, en alguna revista puede haber una demora entre la introducción del sumario y la del texto completo (consultad las condiciones de acceso abierto de la revista).
Memoria Digital de Catalunya (MDC)
Por último, se encuentra MDC, un depósito cooperativo en el que se pueden consultar, en acceso abierto, colecciones digitalizadas de revistas catalanas antiguas, fotografías, mapas, carteles, y demás material relacionado con Catalunya.
Su principal finalidad es aumentar la visibilidad y consulta del patrimonio catalán.
En la 3º Jornada sobre la Biblioteca Digital Universitaria realizada en Córdoba, el 27 y 28 de octubre de 2005, Lluis M. Anglada i de Ferrer, Sandra Reoyo Tudó y Ramon Ros Gorné, presentaron la ponencia "Los repositorios como componentes esenciales de las bibliotecas digitales: la experiencia de las bibliotecas universitarias de Cataluña (CBUC)"
Se puede acceder al texto en la siguiente dirección:
http://www.amicus.udesa.edu.ar/3bibliotecadigital/ponencias/espania.html
Además de describir todo lo relacionado con la cooperación entre las Bibliotecas universitarias de España, los consorcios y el CBUC, la ponencia describe la experiencia concreta que tuvieron al crear la Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya y los distintos repositorios que poseen.
Es muy interesante porque podemos encontrar los principales obstáculos que tuvieron en la implementación de los repositorios y como los fueron solucionando.
Acceso al CBUC - Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Catalunya
Acceso a BDC - Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya
Acceso a TDR - Tesis Doctorales en Red
Acceso a RECERCAT - Repositorio de la Investigación de Catalunya
Acceso a RACO - Revistas Catalanas con Acceso Abierto
Acceso a MDC - Memoria Digital de Catalunya
Actualmente posee una Biblioteca Digital y cuatro repositorios: uno para tesis doctorales, uno para revistas científicas y académicas; uno para literatura gris de investigación y uno para la memoria digital de Catalunya.
Todos los repositorios digitales en los que el CBUC está implicado tienen tres objetivos claramente definidos. Pretenden:
· facilitar la edición digital de documentos ya que esta no es igual de fácil para todas
las personas o entidades que actualmente generan documentación científica,
· proporcionar un acceso colectivo a documentos producidos en diferentes
instituciones y aumentar así la visibilidad de los mismos por el simple hecho de ser accesibles desde receptáculos que, por sus dimensiones, tienen una facilidad mayor de ser conocidos por los usuarios,
· garantizar la persistencia y preservación de los documentos.
TDR - Tesis Doctorales en Red
El primer de los repositorios que se creó fue en 1999 para tesis doctorales, TDR (Tesis Doctorales en Red). Forma parte de la Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) y usa el protocolo de interoperabilidad de la Open Archives Initiative (OAI), lo que permite incrementar la visibilidad de las tesis al ofrecerlas conjuntamente con otros repositorios de tesis internacionales, como por ejemplo OAIster.
Desde mayo de 2007 TDR incorpora la opción de realizar una búsqueda global en otros repositorios españoles de tesis, a través también del uso del protocolo OAI.
Contiene las tesis doctorales leídas en las universidades de Catalunya y de otras comunidades autónomas.
Actualmente incluye más de 3.000 tesis procedentes de 14 universidades diferentes y permite la consulta remota a través de Internet del texto completo de las tesis, así como realizar búsquedas por autor/a, director/a, título, tema de la tesis, universidad y departamento donde se ha leído, año de defensa, etc.
RECERCAT
A lo largo del 2005 se creó RECERCAT que es el repositorio institucional de documentos digitales para la literatura gris de investigación de las universidades de Cataluña. Antes de ponerlo en funcionamiento se tomaron dos decisiones importantes. En primer lugar se establecio un conjunto de metadatos de nivel mínimo y uno de nivel completo con especificaciones semánticas y sintácticas para los mismos. Los metadatos de nivel mínimo son informados por los autores de los documentos y los de nivel completo por bibliotecarios. En segundo lugar, se fijaron los procesos de entrada de datos. Estos suponen determinar quien introduce los documentos, qué metadatos se introducen y quién lo hace y qué procesos de control se establecen.
RECERCAT funciona con el programa de código abierto DSpace.
Actualmente hay 12 universidades que introducen materiales en el repositorio.
Los documentos se introducen a través de dos procedimientos diferentes: de forma directa por los propios autores o por algún servicio de la universidad o centro de investigación; o bien de forma indirecta introduciéndolos en repositorios institucionales propios y usando metadatos estándares que permetan recoger automáticamente los datos y ofrecerlos a consulta a través de RECERCAT. Cualquiera de los dos procedimientos garantizará la accesibilidad a los documentos de una facultad, departamento, instituto, etc. agrupados por éstos.
RACO - Revistas Catalanas con Acceso Abierto
A finales de 2004 nace RACO, un depósito cooperativo desde el que se pueden consultar, en acceso abierto, los artículos a texto completo de revistas científicas, culturales y eruditas catalanas.
Sus finalidades son tres: ayudar a que revistas científicas publicadas sólo en soporte impreso puedan ser accesibles de forma paralela en formato electrónico, permitir el acceso conjunto a los artículos publicados en todas las revistas incluidas en RACO, y facilitar la preservación de las revistas electrónicas publicadas en Cataluña.
RACO funciona con el programa de código libre OJS, desarrollado por el Public Knowledge Project (PKP) con el objetivo de fomentar el acceso a la investigación, facilitando la gestión y publicación de revistas científicas. Esta aplicación permite hacer, entre otras, búsquedas por autor/a y/o título de artículo y por título, materia o institución editora de la revista. De cada artículo se puede consultar la citación bibliográfica recomendada, las estadísticas de consulta, los metadatos que lo describen, recomendar lecturas a compañeros, etc. Asimismo ofrece la posibilidad de suscribirse al servicio de alerta de cualquiera de las revistas que incluye para recibir por correo electrónico el aviso de nuevos números publicados.
Los sumarios y el texto completo de los artículos son introducidos en RACO por las propias instituciones editoras. En la mayoría de las revistas se ofrece el texto completo de todos los números publicados. Sin embargo, en alguna revista puede haber una demora entre la introducción del sumario y la del texto completo (consultad las condiciones de acceso abierto de la revista).
Memoria Digital de Catalunya (MDC)
Por último, se encuentra MDC, un depósito cooperativo en el que se pueden consultar, en acceso abierto, colecciones digitalizadas de revistas catalanas antiguas, fotografías, mapas, carteles, y demás material relacionado con Catalunya.
Su principal finalidad es aumentar la visibilidad y consulta del patrimonio catalán.
En la 3º Jornada sobre la Biblioteca Digital Universitaria realizada en Córdoba, el 27 y 28 de octubre de 2005, Lluis M. Anglada i de Ferrer, Sandra Reoyo Tudó y Ramon Ros Gorné, presentaron la ponencia "Los repositorios como componentes esenciales de las bibliotecas digitales: la experiencia de las bibliotecas universitarias de Cataluña (CBUC)"
Se puede acceder al texto en la siguiente dirección:
http://www.amicus.udesa.edu.ar/3bibliotecadigital/ponencias/espania.html
Además de describir todo lo relacionado con la cooperación entre las Bibliotecas universitarias de España, los consorcios y el CBUC, la ponencia describe la experiencia concreta que tuvieron al crear la Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya y los distintos repositorios que poseen.
Es muy interesante porque podemos encontrar los principales obstáculos que tuvieron en la implementación de los repositorios y como los fueron solucionando.
"Las dificultades mayores han aparecido al cambiar los circuitos establecidos de la edición y difusión de información tradicionales"
"Creemos que en los próximos años las bibliotecas van a dedicar muchos esfuerzos en crear nuevos repositorios y en alimentar los existentes. Las universidades han de poner contenidos digitales accesibles a la comunidad de estudiantes y profesores y las bibliotecas son el organismo universitario mejor preparado para organizar contenidos, facilitar su consulta y garantizar su pervivencia. En el futuro inmediato, la dinámica diaria de las bibliotecas incluirá el manejo de repositorios a gran escala. La mayoría de ellos serán repositorios externos creados por otras bibliotecas de los que deberemos seleccionar documentos que den satisfacción a las necesidades de nuestro usuarios. Algunos, probablemente no uno de solo, serán repositorios creados y mantenidos por nosotros mismos. Debemos hacerlo para aquellos materiales que ningún otro organismo introducirá en la red, debemos hacerlo para que la visibilidad de la producción de la universidad tenga el mayor uso posible (dentro y fuera de la universidad). Los repositorios son un campo de trabajo y experimentación en el ámbito de la edición electrónica, ámbito que las bibliotecas pueden y deben explorar."
Acceso al CBUC - Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Catalunya
Acceso a BDC - Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya
Acceso a TDR - Tesis Doctorales en Red
Acceso a RECERCAT - Repositorio de la Investigación de Catalunya
Acceso a RACO - Revistas Catalanas con Acceso Abierto
Acceso a MDC - Memoria Digital de Catalunya
29 may 2007
Artículos sobre repositorios en OCLC Systems & Services
El último número de la revista OCLC Systems & Services vol. 23, n. 2 (2007) está dedicado a Repositorios. De los 13 artículos que contiene el número, 12 son experiencias concretas.
NOTA: el acceso al texto completo de la Revista es a través de la UBA, por validación del rango de IP de computadoras de la red.
ERMS implementation: navigating the wilderness
Author(s): Norm Medeiros
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe important considerations for commercial ERMS implementers.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines six areas that are critical to successful ERMS implementation.
Findings – The paper finds that, although each of the six areas is important to consider, prior to ERMS implementation, staffing and workflows require the most forethought.
Originality/value – Early-stage ERMS implementers, and those preparing for implementation, should find value in the suggestions described within the paper.
Keywords: Data structures, Library systems, Resource management
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Author(s): Leah Krevit, Linda Crays
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine a pilot program implemented by the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library and The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston to design the multi-institutional repository for the Texas Medical Center.
Design/methodology/approach – The steps involved in the program are outlined and the lessons learned from the implementation are analyzed.
Findings – The success of the institutional repository depends on appropriate communication with faculty, a deep understanding of the publishing process, identifying appropriate partners, designing a flexible technology infrastructure, and engaging in active collaboration with key players. The Library is the logical center for this activity.
Practical implications – The paper should assist libraries with the unique activities involved in creating a viable multi-institutional repository in a research-intense academic medical environment.
Originality/value – This paper analyzes the challenges inherent in introducing institutional digital repositories to the academic medical community. Currently, institutional repositories are being developed in only a small percentage of the academic medical centers in the USA. Keywords: Digital libraries, Digital storage, Health services, Libraries, United States of America
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SHERPA-LEAP: A consortial model for the creation and support of academic institutional repositories
Author(s): Martin Moyle, Rebecca Stockley, Suzanne Tonkin
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to introduce SHERPA-LEAP, a model for the consortial development, population and support of e-prints repositories. Design/methodology/approach – The organisational and technical structures of the consortium are described, including a brief summary of central and local resource responsibilities. Some positive and negative aspects of a consortial approach to institutional repository development, and of the SHERPA-LEAP model in particular, are identified. Outstanding issues and future plans for the consortium are outlined.
Findings – SHERPA-LEAP is shown to be succeeding in its aims of developing and supporting e-prints repositories within the federal University of London. Some lessons learned from the SHERPA-LEAP approach are identified, but the SHERPA-LEAP consortial model is found to have been mostly beneficial to the participating institutions. In particular, the networking and experience-sharing opportunities which any consortial solution will facilitate are highly-valued by the SHERPA-LEAP partners.
Originality/value – The paper is intended to help to inform the decision making of institutions and consortia, which are considering consortial solutions to the establishment, and maintenance of institutional repositories.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Archives management, Collections management
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EPrints makes its mark
Author(s): Nigel Stanger, Graham McGregor
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to report on the impact and cost/benefit of implementing three EPrints digital repositories at the University of Otago, and to encourage others to follow suit.
Design/methodology/approach – Three repositories were successfully implemented at the University of Otago using existing commodity hardware and free open source software. The first pilot repository was implemented within ten days, and is now a fully functional system that is being championed for institutional-wide use by the University Library. The other two repositories emerged from different community needs. One is academic, concerned with collecting and researching indigenous content; the other is designed to preserve and manage collective memory and heritage content for a small rural community.
Findings – The paper shows that digital repositories can be established quickly and effectively with surprisingly few resources; readily incorporate any kind of extant digital content, or non-digital material that is converted to electronic form; meet multifarious needs, from academic institutions seeking to enhance research visibility and impact, to individuals and small communities collecting and preserving their unique memory and heritage records; and establish connectivity with the global community from the moment they go live. Practical implications – The technology and global support community have matured to a state where a fully-featured repository can be quickly and easily implemented.
Originality/value – This paper describes the short history, development and impact of the first live repositories of their kind in New Zealand. Their utility and implications for the unique communities that have given rise to them are also explored, by way of encouraging others to take up the digital challenge.
Keywords: Collections management, Digital storate, New Zealand, University libraries
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Creating an institutional repository at a challenged institution
Author(s): John C. Kelly
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to show how an institutional repository can be successfully created by university libraries with limited financial and technological resources. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the library's experience creating an institutional repository despite financial and technological limitations is recounted.
Findings – The paper finds that a serviceable repository may be created by focusing on its critical elements, and adapting existing resources, including a proprietary system currently used for other digital resources.
Practical implications – The paper shows that librarians should not assume that open-source systems are the only vehicles for providing institutional repositories, or that such a service is necessarily beyond their capabilities.
Originality/value – Academic libraries do not have to follow an involved, idealized process to create an institutional repository based upon open-source software. Systems already at hand, even if proprietary, may be adapted and real-world limitations surmounted to create such a resource.
Keywords: Collections management, Digital libraries, Systems software, University libraries
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Challenges and lessons learned: moving from image database to institutional repository
Author(s): Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer, Jim Comes
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to chronicle the Lamar Soutter Library's effort to build an educational image database, and how the project developed into an institutional repository.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper is divided into three phases and highlights the organizational, political, technological and resource issues that are unique to a specialized library with a medium-sized staff, lacking the resources of a traditional university campus. The case concludes with a list of barriers and facilitators to success and a summary of lessons learned. Findings – The paper finds that a library with limited staff, funding, and systems development resources can initiate and support an institutional repository. Facilitators of success include clear lines of authority, a strong champion, and the appropriate technology for the project. Originality/value – This paper serves as an example to libraries that are in the beginning phases of developing an institutional repository by discussing the barriers to and facilitators of success.
Keywords: Collections management, Medical libraries, Project management, Visual databases
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ALADIN Research Commons: a consortial institutional repository
Author(s): Bruce Hulse, Joan F. Cheverie, Claire T. Dygert
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits and challenges of creating a shared institutional repository and to, describe the process by which a consortium was able to establish such a service.
Design/methodology/approach – A case study is presented outlining the process through which the Washington Research Library Consortium selected and implemented the DSpace institutional repository software in a shared information technology environment. The issues confronted in dealing with a multi-institutional implementation are examined through both a detailed description of the implementation and a generalized description of the challenges the consortium faced.
Findings – The paper finds that while a shared implementation of an institutional repository does present significant challenges that would not be present for a single institution, the collaborative approach also presents significant benefits in drawing on the breadth of expertise available among the Consortium and utilizing a shared information technology infrastructure.
Originality/value – Institutional repositories have generally been implemented within the context of a single institution. An alternative model is described that draws on the experience and expertise of multiple institutions to achieve a common goal.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Collections management, Digital libraries, Library systems
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Developing an institutional repository: Cranfield QUEprints – a case study
Author(s): Simon J. Bevan
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the Institutional Repository at Cranfield University – Cranfield QUEprints (http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk).
Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the methodologies involved in acquiring research output, and covers advocacy strategies, policies, and also provides data on cost and usage.
Findings – The Cranfield QUEprints is a managed repository where the archiving is undertaken by library staff. This has proved to be a successful method of acquiring research outputs and increasing content. Selected methods of persuading academics to contribute to the IR, including personal contact, and marketing information, have also proved successful.
Research limitations/implications – That the report is specific to an institution, but provides experiences that will be generally applicable.
Originality/value – The paper provides reassurance that, when it comes to populating an institutional repository, an alternative method to self-archiving can be successful and cost-effective. It is hoped that the descriptions provided in the paper will provide encouragement to institutions currently without an IR that there are no insurmountable barriers to the development of such a system.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Archives management, Digital libraries, Universities
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The institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Its first year of operations Author(s): Paul Royster
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a short history of the first year of operation of an institutional repository (IR) at a midwestern state university. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is anecdotal, reviewing aims, rationales, and strategies, and offering advice and some counter-intuitive lessons.
Findings – The paper finds that voluntary self-archiving by faculty or campus publishers is exceptional or rare, but there are other ways of populating an IR with valuable content. IR's should seek original material, including new dissertations, as well as previously published articles. IR's should offer a variety of services to make faculty participation as effortless as possible. IR's can increase usage by efforts directed at publicizing their resources and offerings. Research limitations/implications – The paper concerns one institution, but the challenges faced are common to all new university institutional repositories.
Originality/value – This paper is a useful source of information for those considering, planning, or operating an institutional repository.
Keywords: Archives management, Archiving, Digital storage, University libraries
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A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository: The University of Kansas' experience
Author(s): Holly Mercer, Brian Rosenblum, Ada Emmett
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of KU ScholarWorks, the University of Kansas' institutional repository, and the various strategies used to promote and populate it.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes how KU ScholarWorks came into being, and discusses the variety of activities employed to publicize the repository and encourage faculty to deposit their work. In addition, the paper discusses some of the concerns expressed by faculty members, and some of the obstacles encountered in getting them to use the repository. The paper concludes with some observations about KU's efforts, an assessment of the success of the program to date, and suggests some next steps the program may take. Findings – The paper found that KU ScholarWorks has relied on a “self-archiving” model, which requires regular communication with faculty and long-term community building. Repository content continues to grow at a steady pace, but uptake among faculty has been slow. In the absence of mandates requiring faculty to deposit work, organizations running institutional repositories must continue to aggressively pursue a variety of strategies to promote repositories to faculty and encourage them to deposit their scholarship.
Originality/value – KU's experience will help other institutions develop institutional repositories by providing examples of marketing strategies, and by promoting a greater understanding of faculty behavior and concerns with regard to institutional repositories. Keywords: Archiving, Digital storage, Electronic publishing, University libraries
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PEPIA: a Norwegian collaborative effort for institutional repositories
Author(s): Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on Project for Electronic Publications and Institutional Archives (PEPIA), which is a government-sponsored Norwegian effort, to provide institutional repositories to multiple Norwegian universities, university colleges and other research institutions through a consortium managed by BIBSYS. Design/methodology/approach – Some aspects of the project are headlined to give a brief introduction to the PEPIA project and the problems associated with creating a consortium with multiple institutions on one software platform.
Findings – The ongoing project PEPIA has shown that it is possible for multiple organizations to join forces and create a consortium to develop an institutional repository on one software platform. After an initial requirements specification phase it was found that most institutions have the same basic requirements, even though they may seem different. The requirements, besides basic registration and searching, are mostly centered on integration with library systems, research documentation systems, national OAI harvesters and preferably learning management systems. The experience with the freely available DSpace software is mostly good, but the work of integrating the software into an already existing software development platform and production environment was more complex than estimated. The user management mechanisms in DSpace is too simplistic but the development of a more advanced rule-based access mechanisms for collections has resulted in a lot easier management by users, and can further lower the operating costs for the members of the consortium.
Originality/value – The paper provides an overview of the PEPIA project, which enables more and more institutions to see the benefits of working together towards better solutions. Keywords: Archiving, Electronic publishing, Library systems, Norway
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The RepoMMan project: Automating workflow and metadata for an institutional repository
Author(s): Richard Green, Ian Dolphin, Chris Awre, Robert Sherratt
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the work of the JISC-funded RepoMMan project, which is developing a tool that will allow users to interact with a Fedora-based institutional repository. The tool facilitates user interaction with the repository whilst developing content, using a browser interface, and will bring partial automation to the process of assigning metadata to objects, as they are made accessible to a wider audience. Design/methodology/approach – The development of the RepoMMan tool is user-needs-driven and the project team has conducted face-to-face interviews and an online survey with potential research users. The findings from these parallel approaches have provided an insight into the needs of this group. Similar work will be undertaken with potential users in the teaching and learning community, and in administration. The RepoMMan tool utilises BPEL to orchestrate a range of web services.
Findings – Potential user needs are many and varied. The RepoMMan tool will be the basis for flexible user interaction with a repository during the development of materials; the web-service approach also allows for the development of a range of ways to access repository objects appropriate to the needs of the content.
Originality/value – The results in this paper highlighted the potential value of a repository for general day-to-day purposes: the RepoMMan workflow tool is being designed to adapt to these purposes as required.
Keywords: Digital storage, Project management, Universities, Worldwide web
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Expanding roles for the institutional repository
Author(s): Marie Wise, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Sidney Byrd
Abstract: Purpose – Rice University has adopted the DSpace platform for its institutional repository, but has pushed the traditional limits of how that is defined. To accommodate a wider range of scholarship that includes digitized multimedia source materials integrated with educational modules and geospatial resources, the technical infrastructure of DSpace has been enriched. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the developments and decisions required to support this range of scholarship beyond born-digital scholarly pre-prints and reports. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a digital archive that makes use of DSpace to preserve and present images and texts, as a case study in using DSpace as both a repository and archive framework. TIMEA integrates two additional systems for presenting digital content, Connexions, which focuses on educational modules, and ArcIMS, which makes available dynamic GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps.
Findings – Although DSpace was originally intended to be an “institutional repository” for born-digital materials such as scholarly reports, it can also serve as an archive for digitized items such as XML-encoded texts and digital images. However, making DSpace work as a digital archive for TIMEA has required customization, including building-in XML support, working with DSpace's flat metadata structure, implementing a customized, XML-driven user interface using Manakin, and performing additional programming to integrate functionality for GIS and educational modules.
Practical implications – The practical implications of using DSpace as both institutional repository and digital archive have required a number of modifications, including additional functional software development, reworking the metadata structure, redefining repository policies, format access modifications, and customizing the look and feel of the repository. Originality/value – The discussion in this paper, of the challenges and decisions inherent in using an institutional repository with a digital archive will assist other institutions working to integrate resources as will the portal structure to facilitate harvesting from multiple relevant repositories and direct users to digital resources independent of their native repositories. Likewise, enhancements to DSpace, such as support for XML document presentation, are contributions to the institutional repository community.
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NOTA: el acceso al texto completo de la Revista es a través de la UBA, por validación del rango de IP de computadoras de la red.
ERMS implementation: navigating the wilderness
Author(s): Norm Medeiros
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe important considerations for commercial ERMS implementers.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines six areas that are critical to successful ERMS implementation.
Findings – The paper finds that, although each of the six areas is important to consider, prior to ERMS implementation, staffing and workflows require the most forethought.
Originality/value – Early-stage ERMS implementers, and those preparing for implementation, should find value in the suggestions described within the paper.
Keywords: Data structures, Library systems, Resource management
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http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContentItem.do?contentType=Article&contentId=1610446
Author(s): Leah Krevit, Linda Crays
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine a pilot program implemented by the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library and The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston to design the multi-institutional repository for the Texas Medical Center.
Design/methodology/approach – The steps involved in the program are outlined and the lessons learned from the implementation are analyzed.
Findings – The success of the institutional repository depends on appropriate communication with faculty, a deep understanding of the publishing process, identifying appropriate partners, designing a flexible technology infrastructure, and engaging in active collaboration with key players. The Library is the logical center for this activity.
Practical implications – The paper should assist libraries with the unique activities involved in creating a viable multi-institutional repository in a research-intense academic medical environment.
Originality/value – This paper analyzes the challenges inherent in introducing institutional digital repositories to the academic medical community. Currently, institutional repositories are being developed in only a small percentage of the academic medical centers in the USA. Keywords: Digital libraries, Digital storage, Health services, Libraries, United States of America
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SHERPA-LEAP: A consortial model for the creation and support of academic institutional repositories
Author(s): Martin Moyle, Rebecca Stockley, Suzanne Tonkin
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to introduce SHERPA-LEAP, a model for the consortial development, population and support of e-prints repositories. Design/methodology/approach – The organisational and technical structures of the consortium are described, including a brief summary of central and local resource responsibilities. Some positive and negative aspects of a consortial approach to institutional repository development, and of the SHERPA-LEAP model in particular, are identified. Outstanding issues and future plans for the consortium are outlined.
Findings – SHERPA-LEAP is shown to be succeeding in its aims of developing and supporting e-prints repositories within the federal University of London. Some lessons learned from the SHERPA-LEAP approach are identified, but the SHERPA-LEAP consortial model is found to have been mostly beneficial to the participating institutions. In particular, the networking and experience-sharing opportunities which any consortial solution will facilitate are highly-valued by the SHERPA-LEAP partners.
Originality/value – The paper is intended to help to inform the decision making of institutions and consortia, which are considering consortial solutions to the establishment, and maintenance of institutional repositories.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Archives management, Collections management
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EPrints makes its mark
Author(s): Nigel Stanger, Graham McGregor
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to report on the impact and cost/benefit of implementing three EPrints digital repositories at the University of Otago, and to encourage others to follow suit.
Design/methodology/approach – Three repositories were successfully implemented at the University of Otago using existing commodity hardware and free open source software. The first pilot repository was implemented within ten days, and is now a fully functional system that is being championed for institutional-wide use by the University Library. The other two repositories emerged from different community needs. One is academic, concerned with collecting and researching indigenous content; the other is designed to preserve and manage collective memory and heritage content for a small rural community.
Findings – The paper shows that digital repositories can be established quickly and effectively with surprisingly few resources; readily incorporate any kind of extant digital content, or non-digital material that is converted to electronic form; meet multifarious needs, from academic institutions seeking to enhance research visibility and impact, to individuals and small communities collecting and preserving their unique memory and heritage records; and establish connectivity with the global community from the moment they go live. Practical implications – The technology and global support community have matured to a state where a fully-featured repository can be quickly and easily implemented.
Originality/value – This paper describes the short history, development and impact of the first live repositories of their kind in New Zealand. Their utility and implications for the unique communities that have given rise to them are also explored, by way of encouraging others to take up the digital challenge.
Keywords: Collections management, Digital storate, New Zealand, University libraries
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Creating an institutional repository at a challenged institution
Author(s): John C. Kelly
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to show how an institutional repository can be successfully created by university libraries with limited financial and technological resources. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the library's experience creating an institutional repository despite financial and technological limitations is recounted.
Findings – The paper finds that a serviceable repository may be created by focusing on its critical elements, and adapting existing resources, including a proprietary system currently used for other digital resources.
Practical implications – The paper shows that librarians should not assume that open-source systems are the only vehicles for providing institutional repositories, or that such a service is necessarily beyond their capabilities.
Originality/value – Academic libraries do not have to follow an involved, idealized process to create an institutional repository based upon open-source software. Systems already at hand, even if proprietary, may be adapted and real-world limitations surmounted to create such a resource.
Keywords: Collections management, Digital libraries, Systems software, University libraries
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Challenges and lessons learned: moving from image database to institutional repository
Author(s): Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer, Jim Comes
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to chronicle the Lamar Soutter Library's effort to build an educational image database, and how the project developed into an institutional repository.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper is divided into three phases and highlights the organizational, political, technological and resource issues that are unique to a specialized library with a medium-sized staff, lacking the resources of a traditional university campus. The case concludes with a list of barriers and facilitators to success and a summary of lessons learned. Findings – The paper finds that a library with limited staff, funding, and systems development resources can initiate and support an institutional repository. Facilitators of success include clear lines of authority, a strong champion, and the appropriate technology for the project. Originality/value – This paper serves as an example to libraries that are in the beginning phases of developing an institutional repository by discussing the barriers to and facilitators of success.
Keywords: Collections management, Medical libraries, Project management, Visual databases
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ALADIN Research Commons: a consortial institutional repository
Author(s): Bruce Hulse, Joan F. Cheverie, Claire T. Dygert
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits and challenges of creating a shared institutional repository and to, describe the process by which a consortium was able to establish such a service.
Design/methodology/approach – A case study is presented outlining the process through which the Washington Research Library Consortium selected and implemented the DSpace institutional repository software in a shared information technology environment. The issues confronted in dealing with a multi-institutional implementation are examined through both a detailed description of the implementation and a generalized description of the challenges the consortium faced.
Findings – The paper finds that while a shared implementation of an institutional repository does present significant challenges that would not be present for a single institution, the collaborative approach also presents significant benefits in drawing on the breadth of expertise available among the Consortium and utilizing a shared information technology infrastructure.
Originality/value – Institutional repositories have generally been implemented within the context of a single institution. An alternative model is described that draws on the experience and expertise of multiple institutions to achieve a common goal.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Collections management, Digital libraries, Library systems
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Developing an institutional repository: Cranfield QUEprints – a case study
Author(s): Simon J. Bevan
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of the Institutional Repository at Cranfield University – Cranfield QUEprints (http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk).
Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the methodologies involved in acquiring research output, and covers advocacy strategies, policies, and also provides data on cost and usage.
Findings – The Cranfield QUEprints is a managed repository where the archiving is undertaken by library staff. This has proved to be a successful method of acquiring research outputs and increasing content. Selected methods of persuading academics to contribute to the IR, including personal contact, and marketing information, have also proved successful.
Research limitations/implications – That the report is specific to an institution, but provides experiences that will be generally applicable.
Originality/value – The paper provides reassurance that, when it comes to populating an institutional repository, an alternative method to self-archiving can be successful and cost-effective. It is hoped that the descriptions provided in the paper will provide encouragement to institutions currently without an IR that there are no insurmountable barriers to the development of such a system.
Keywords: Academic libraries, Archives management, Digital libraries, Universities
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The institutional repository at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Its first year of operations Author(s): Paul Royster
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a short history of the first year of operation of an institutional repository (IR) at a midwestern state university. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is anecdotal, reviewing aims, rationales, and strategies, and offering advice and some counter-intuitive lessons.
Findings – The paper finds that voluntary self-archiving by faculty or campus publishers is exceptional or rare, but there are other ways of populating an IR with valuable content. IR's should seek original material, including new dissertations, as well as previously published articles. IR's should offer a variety of services to make faculty participation as effortless as possible. IR's can increase usage by efforts directed at publicizing their resources and offerings. Research limitations/implications – The paper concerns one institution, but the challenges faced are common to all new university institutional repositories.
Originality/value – This paper is a useful source of information for those considering, planning, or operating an institutional repository.
Keywords: Archives management, Archiving, Digital storage, University libraries
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A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository: The University of Kansas' experience
Author(s): Holly Mercer, Brian Rosenblum, Ada Emmett
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of KU ScholarWorks, the University of Kansas' institutional repository, and the various strategies used to promote and populate it.
Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes how KU ScholarWorks came into being, and discusses the variety of activities employed to publicize the repository and encourage faculty to deposit their work. In addition, the paper discusses some of the concerns expressed by faculty members, and some of the obstacles encountered in getting them to use the repository. The paper concludes with some observations about KU's efforts, an assessment of the success of the program to date, and suggests some next steps the program may take. Findings – The paper found that KU ScholarWorks has relied on a “self-archiving” model, which requires regular communication with faculty and long-term community building. Repository content continues to grow at a steady pace, but uptake among faculty has been slow. In the absence of mandates requiring faculty to deposit work, organizations running institutional repositories must continue to aggressively pursue a variety of strategies to promote repositories to faculty and encourage them to deposit their scholarship.
Originality/value – KU's experience will help other institutions develop institutional repositories by providing examples of marketing strategies, and by promoting a greater understanding of faculty behavior and concerns with regard to institutional repositories. Keywords: Archiving, Digital storage, Electronic publishing, University libraries
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PEPIA: a Norwegian collaborative effort for institutional repositories
Author(s): Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on Project for Electronic Publications and Institutional Archives (PEPIA), which is a government-sponsored Norwegian effort, to provide institutional repositories to multiple Norwegian universities, university colleges and other research institutions through a consortium managed by BIBSYS. Design/methodology/approach – Some aspects of the project are headlined to give a brief introduction to the PEPIA project and the problems associated with creating a consortium with multiple institutions on one software platform.
Findings – The ongoing project PEPIA has shown that it is possible for multiple organizations to join forces and create a consortium to develop an institutional repository on one software platform. After an initial requirements specification phase it was found that most institutions have the same basic requirements, even though they may seem different. The requirements, besides basic registration and searching, are mostly centered on integration with library systems, research documentation systems, national OAI harvesters and preferably learning management systems. The experience with the freely available DSpace software is mostly good, but the work of integrating the software into an already existing software development platform and production environment was more complex than estimated. The user management mechanisms in DSpace is too simplistic but the development of a more advanced rule-based access mechanisms for collections has resulted in a lot easier management by users, and can further lower the operating costs for the members of the consortium.
Originality/value – The paper provides an overview of the PEPIA project, which enables more and more institutions to see the benefits of working together towards better solutions. Keywords: Archiving, Electronic publishing, Library systems, Norway
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The RepoMMan project: Automating workflow and metadata for an institutional repository
Author(s): Richard Green, Ian Dolphin, Chris Awre, Robert Sherratt
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the work of the JISC-funded RepoMMan project, which is developing a tool that will allow users to interact with a Fedora-based institutional repository. The tool facilitates user interaction with the repository whilst developing content, using a browser interface, and will bring partial automation to the process of assigning metadata to objects, as they are made accessible to a wider audience. Design/methodology/approach – The development of the RepoMMan tool is user-needs-driven and the project team has conducted face-to-face interviews and an online survey with potential research users. The findings from these parallel approaches have provided an insight into the needs of this group. Similar work will be undertaken with potential users in the teaching and learning community, and in administration. The RepoMMan tool utilises BPEL to orchestrate a range of web services.
Findings – Potential user needs are many and varied. The RepoMMan tool will be the basis for flexible user interaction with a repository during the development of materials; the web-service approach also allows for the development of a range of ways to access repository objects appropriate to the needs of the content.
Originality/value – The results in this paper highlighted the potential value of a repository for general day-to-day purposes: the RepoMMan workflow tool is being designed to adapt to these purposes as required.
Keywords: Digital storage, Project management, Universities, Worldwide web
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Expanding roles for the institutional repository
Author(s): Marie Wise, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Sidney Byrd
Abstract: Purpose – Rice University has adopted the DSpace platform for its institutional repository, but has pushed the traditional limits of how that is defined. To accommodate a wider range of scholarship that includes digitized multimedia source materials integrated with educational modules and geospatial resources, the technical infrastructure of DSpace has been enriched. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the developments and decisions required to support this range of scholarship beyond born-digital scholarly pre-prints and reports. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a digital archive that makes use of DSpace to preserve and present images and texts, as a case study in using DSpace as both a repository and archive framework. TIMEA integrates two additional systems for presenting digital content, Connexions, which focuses on educational modules, and ArcIMS, which makes available dynamic GIS (Geographic Information Systems) maps.
Findings – Although DSpace was originally intended to be an “institutional repository” for born-digital materials such as scholarly reports, it can also serve as an archive for digitized items such as XML-encoded texts and digital images. However, making DSpace work as a digital archive for TIMEA has required customization, including building-in XML support, working with DSpace's flat metadata structure, implementing a customized, XML-driven user interface using Manakin, and performing additional programming to integrate functionality for GIS and educational modules.
Practical implications – The practical implications of using DSpace as both institutional repository and digital archive have required a number of modifications, including additional functional software development, reworking the metadata structure, redefining repository policies, format access modifications, and customizing the look and feel of the repository. Originality/value – The discussion in this paper, of the challenges and decisions inherent in using an institutional repository with a digital archive will assist other institutions working to integrate resources as will the portal structure to facilitate harvesting from multiple relevant repositories and direct users to digital resources independent of their native repositories. Likewise, enhancements to DSpace, such as support for XML document presentation, are contributions to the institutional repository community.
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24 may 2007
ELIS y el paradigma del acceso abierto a la información
| Por Monica Klibanski ELIS: un repositorio de acceso abierto sobre bibliotecología ELIS (E-prints in library information science) es un archivo de acceso abierto de documentos científicos o técnicos, publicados o inéditos, sobre la Biblioteconomía, Ciencia de la Información, y áreas relacionadas, que se inició en 2003. Es el primer servidor electrónico internacional en esta área temática específica, y es el resultado del proyecto RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) y del DoIS (Documents in Information Science), impulsado por el Ministerio de Cultura de España y alojado por el Equipo AEPIC en máquinas del Italian Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per Elaborazione Automatica (CILEA). El acceso abierto en el ciclo de la comunicación científica Uno de los factores que está provocando cambios más significativos en la producción, el intercambio, y la distribución de información científico técnica es la filosofía del movimiento de acceso abierto. Esto implica garantizar el derecho a la libre disponibilidad, a través de internet, del texto completo de los artículos que pubican los investigadores, para buscar, leer, descargar, distribuir, imprimir, indizar y cualquier otro tipo de uso legítimo con propósitos educativos, manteniendo el reconocimiento de autoría correspondiente. Los repositorios de libre acceso de literatura científica son colecciones de objetos digitales, basadas en la Web, de material académico producido por miembros de una institución (o varias), con una política definida de selección, almacenamiento y distribución. Un repositorio ofrece accesibilidad irrestricta a los trabajos que son cedidos y autoarchivados voluntariamente por los propios investigadores, instituciones u otros propietarios en su nombre, asegurando la presevación a largo plazo del contenido. Los archivos abiertos incrementan el acceso, el impacto y la visibilidad del trabajo de los científicos a través de procesos de publicación mucho más veloces que los que caracterizan a las publicaciones de tipo tradicional. Algunos inclusive posibilitan opciones interactivas de escritura, por ejemplo permitiendo que otros investigadores publiquen comentarios referidos al paper, que podrán dar lugar a nuevas versiones del mismo, o hasta formarán parte del artículo, rompiendo así con la estructura clásica, estática y cerrada de los artículos académicos evaluados únicamente por el Comité Editor. El archivo abierto CogPrints, dedicado a la psicología, la neurociencia, la lingüística, y otras disciplinas vinculadas con las ciencias de la computación reúne algunas de estas características. Otras de las ventajas son que, tal como las mega bases de datos de la industria editorial, proporcionan acceso a grandes masas de documentos a través de potentes herramientas de búsqueda, y brindan servicios suplementarios de difusión y acceso a la información favorecidos por nuevas tecnologías (por ej. servicios de alerta por e-mail a partir de temas de interés definidos previamente por el investigador, RSS, envío por e-mail a colegas de recomendaciones de artículos, estadísticas de consulta y descarga, etc.). El modelo de acceso abierto: un complemento del modelo tradicional En el ciclo tradicional de la comunicación científica los investigadores investigan y, siguiendo la máxima "publish or perish", escriben papers para comunicar los avances y resultados de sus investigaciones. Ellos aspiran a publicar en las revistas académicas de mayor impacto dentro de la comunidad científica para así ganar prestigio y poder seguir investigando subvencionados principalmente por fondos públicos a los que se suma el financiamiento privado. Se trata de publicaciones de costos sumamente onerosos que vuelven inaccesibles e impensables suscripciones de tipo personal, son universidades o instituciones científicas las que afrontan esa inversión y ofrecen acceso a esa información a través de sus redes de computadoras. Pero estos organismos del Estado, que aportan recursos y financiamiento para esas investigaciones, tienen presupuestos acotados, y los valores en dólares de estas publicaciones crecen constantemente. Esta es una cuestión que afecta y limita particularmente a países como el nuestro. Este modelo de comunicación ha ido cambiando en el tiempo a partir del surgimiento de nuevas tecnologías, y nuevos paradigmas. Los antecedentes del movimiento de acceso abierto a información bibliográfica de tipo de académica, como una alternativa complementaria, se remontan a la aparición en 1966 de ERIC, un centro de información sobre recursos educativos, inicitiva de U.S. Department of Education. Ese mismo año surge también Medline un servicio bibliográfico de U.S. National Library of Medicine para el campo de la biomedicina. En el ámbito latinoamericano, a partir de junio de 1998, comenzó a funcionar regularmente Scielo que es el producto de la cooperación entre FAPESP - la Fundación de Apoyo a la Investigación del Estado de São Paulo, BIREME - Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Información en Ciencias de la Salud, así como instituciones nacionales e internacionales relacionadas con la comunicación científica y editores científicos. Estos nuevos modelos de publicación y difusión gratuita de información científica conviven con los modelos de acceso restringido. Los editores comerciales internacionales (Elsevier, Springer, ScienceDirect, etc.), con sus grandes bases de datos, mantienen su relevancia en el circuito de la comunicación científica. Sin embargo, paulatinamente entre los investigadores aumenta el grado de concientización acerca de la importancia de la libertad de acceso al conocimiento que ellos producen para contribuir al crecimiento y progreso de la ciencia. La existencia de archivos abiertos, como ELIS y tantos otros, dinamiza la circulación y amplía el acceso a la producción académica, además de que obliga a repensar de manera crítica prácticas y sobre todo políticas a seguir en el ciclo de producción y comunicación de la información científica. LINKS DE INTERES Directory of open access repositoires Registry of Open Access Repositories Declaración de Berlín sobre acceso abierto en ciencias y humanidades Open Archives Initiative Budapest Open Access Initiative OTROS LINKS Biblioteca Electrónica de la Secretaría de Ciencia y Técnica Sistema de Bibliotecas y de Información de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires Se agradece la colaboración para la elaboración de esta nota de Carolina Gruffat y Olga Arias. |
Fuente: Educar, Viernes 18 de Mayo de 2007
9 may 2007
ROAR -Registro de repositorios de acceso abierto-
El ROAR -registro de repositorios de acceso abierto- mantenido por la Universidad de Southampton, cuenta en la actualidad con 886 repositorios.Aunque fue creado en el año 2004 para mantener la lista de los sitios GNU EPrints (el software que la Universidad de Southampton designó para facilitar el autoarchivo), luego se convirtió en un registro general de repositorios de acceso abierto.
Descripción
Cada registro posee:
- el link hacia la página del repositorio
- una descripción del repositorio (software utilizado, país de origen, tipo de contenido posee, fecha del registro, cantidad de documentos depositados)
- la imagen de la pagina web
- gráficos estadísticos de la actividad del repositorio (estos gráficos muestran el número de documentos depositados en el repositorio por día y el acumulativo total.)
Se pueden realizar consultas por país, tipos de archivos (contenido) y por software utilizado.
Los registros se pueden ordenar por nombre, actividad, cantidad de documentos depositados.
Cantidad de Repositorios por país
Latinoamerica
Brasil: 53
México: 8
Colombia: 6
Perú: 5
Venezuela: 5
Chile: 4
Argentina: 2
Costa Rica: 2
Cuba: 1
Uruguay: 1
Otros
Estados Unidos: 215
Reino Unido: 98
Alemania: 79
Canadá: 40
Francia: 37
Australia: 33
Suecia: 33
Japón: 29
Italia: 27
Latinoamerica
Brasil: 53
México: 8
Colombia: 6
Perú: 5
Venezuela: 5
Chile: 4
Argentina: 2
Costa Rica: 2
Cuba: 1
Uruguay: 1
Otros
Estados Unidos: 215
Reino Unido: 98
Alemania: 79
Canadá: 40
Francia: 37
Australia: 33
Suecia: 33
Japón: 29
Italia: 27
De Argentina figuran:
Scielo Argentina
Scielo Argentina
Con 26 publicaciones periódicas y 2104 registros. Fue registrado en el año 2000.
Revista digital de la Escuela Superior de Derecho, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Fue registrada en el año 2004.
Software utilizados
DSpace: 232
GNU Eprints: 225
Bepress: 56
OPUS: 25
ETD-db: 23
DIVA: 15
CDSWare: 9
Open Repository: 8
HAL: 7
ARNO: 5
Fedora: 5
DoKS: 4
EDOC: 2
MyCoRe: 2
Fez-Fedora: 1
Otros softwares: 260
Tipo de contenido
DSpace: 232
GNU Eprints: 225
Bepress: 56
OPUS: 25
ETD-db: 23
DIVA: 15
CDSWare: 9
Open Repository: 8
HAL: 7
ARNO: 5
Fedora: 5
DoKS: 4
EDOC: 2
MyCoRe: 2
Fez-Fedora: 1
Otros softwares: 260
Tipo de contenido
Investigación institucional o departamental: 450
Publicaciones Periódicas / Revistas: 98
Tesis digitales: 81
Investigación Cross institucional: 76
Demostración: 24
Bases de datos: 18
Otros: 132
Situación en Argentina
Estas son algunas de las iniciativas de repositorios en nuestro país. Todas ellas, menos la del SeDiCI, son Bibliotecas Digitales de Tesis y Disertaciones.
1) Biblioteca Digital de Tesis y Disertaciones. Universidad Nacional del Sur
El proyecto inicia sus primeras actividades en Abril de 2001. Se puede acceder al estado de avance del proyecto en la Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). Contiene acceso a una versión de prueba del sistema actualmente en funcionamiento. También incluye las distintas actividades realizadas que complementan la digitalización de tesis de maestría y doctorado.
2) Biblioteca Digital de Tesis y Disertaciones. Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
"La Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales encara un plan para evitar el deterioro de artículos y tesis. Por eso ahora cada graduado presenta sus trabajos en formato digital. Cada año se defienden en sus aulas unas 120 investigaciones, el 25 por ciento de la producción nacional."
Fuente: Clarín
3) Biblioteca Digital de Tesis y Disertaciones. SISBI
En la página del Sisbi hay un informe del año 2004 en el que se encuentran los integrantes del Proyecto, las subcomisiones, las tareas realizadas.
4) Biblioteca Digital de Tesis y Disertaciones. Instituto Balseiro
Esta biblioteca optó por el sistema TEDE simplificado dado que anualmente se defienden ante el Instituto un promedio de 30 tesis, entre las de grado, doctorado y especialización.
5) SeDiCI. Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Iniciativa en pos de la difusión a través de Internet, dentro y fuera del ámbito de la Universidad, de los conocimientos que en ella se generan. Los objetivos son sumamente ambiciosos e incluyen la difusion electrónica de tesis, tesinas y disertaciones pero también de otros tipos de creaciones intelectuales, pretendiendo abarcar la ciencia, la tecnología y el arte buscando modos de presentación no solo de objetos en forma de documentos de texto sino también otros medios multimediales aptos para creaciones no documentales.
Invito a los responsables de cada una de estas iniciativas, y a todos aquellos que estan llevando a cabo proyectos de este tipo, a difundir sus avances en el Blog.
Muchas gracias !!!
Muchas gracias !!!
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