Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). / Objectives: At present, libraries, worldwide, are making concerted efforts to facilitate transformation of theses to e- forms. In India, too, ETD activities are going on at an accelerated pace. The country has one of the largest educational systems across the globe. There are 634 universities and 33023 colleges in the country; every year more tan 11000 doctoral theses are awarded to the students. The University Grants Commission, (India) notification, 2009 has mandated submission of e-theses, by the research scholars, to the universities. All universities are required to setup e- theses repository to facilitate e- submission, archiving, maintenance and access to them. The paper focuses on the progress of ETD initiatives taken in India. The data is being collected through questionnaire method and whatever (information) is available in public domain in order to find out the following: 1. Current / Ongoing projects –various universities involved in ETD projects 2. Content/Total collection 3. Coverage of subject areas 4. Objectives of ETD 5. Use of software 6. Metadata schema used 7. Competency of the staff to maintain ETD 8. Policies of the universities with regard to acquisition/acceptance of etheses. 9. Policies of Government/Research Council/University Grants Commission(UGC) The paper elaborates and compares the ETD initiatives taken in UK and Australia with India. Methods: Questionnaire and whatever information is available on websites of the universities.

Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). / La creación y posterior gestión de un repositorio institucional no tiene sentido si no cuenta con un número significativo de documentos y un crecimiento permanente de la colección, a un coste razonable. A partir del estudio de repositorios institucionales y de colecciones patrimoniales de bibliotecas, archivos y museos de España, los autores comparten sus reflexiones bajo la premisa de producir repositorios sostenibles, promoviendo la autosuficiencia en el incremento de sus fondos, la garantía de la financiación permanente por parte de la institución que los integra y, especialmente, el uso de los documentos depositados en la comunidad a la que sirve la institución. Tras un breve repaso a los procesos de adaptación de la filosofía del Acceso Abierto a los repositorios existentes, se establece una hoja de ruta para el diseño e implementación de un nuevo repositorio, teniendo en cuenta la cobertura estratégica y legal del proyecto, las opciones de hardware y software más populares, así como la planificación de los procesos de trabajo y la adopción de metadatos de descripción e interoperabilidad. Se presentan estrategias de difusión y evaluación de los repositorios. Finalmente, se aportan recomendaciones básicas de preservación digital, a la espera de una solución global.

Workshop 2: Persistent identifiers for ETDs, institutional use cases - ETD 2021. November 15, 2021. Qatar. / Topics for persistint identifiers, especially ORCID IDs. Experience UPC University in using ORCID in theses.

Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). / In 2008 the Peruvian Network for Digital Theses (RPTD) started with 4 universities. According to the National Association of Rectors (ANR, in Spanish), there are 77 universities in Peru, both public and private; 12 of them have an electronic theses portal, and only 9 share their metadata through the OAI-PMH protocol. Relying on strategic alliances, RPTD has rendered more visible scientific information produced in Peru, and has promoted the creation of other portals hosting digital theses and other contents as in the case of AMAUTA, the First Peruvian Digital Repository. It is not a surprise that AMAUTA and RPTD have some common features in design and functioning. Contents collected in RPTD and AMAUTA pose challenges that must be addressed so we can secure a sustainable functioning in time. First, these repositories centralize information so they and make access faster; make possible the re-utilization of data and the generation of other online scientific projects (UNMSM Research Journals); help identify deficiencies in bibliographic description and identifiers, helping us in the elaboration of proposals for the standardization of the bibliographical description and the creation of a authorities data base. These are some of the activities proposed and designed in this article, including challenges faces and possible solutions.

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master Of Arts in Library and Information Science in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the University Of Zululand, 2018 / This study set out to investigate whether researchers at the University of Zululand were aware of scholarly open access resources available to them. This involved determining the strategies put in place by the University to promote open access databases and resources and the extent to which the researchers had incorporated these resources into their research. The study also aimed to assess the barriers against and factors in favour of adoption and use open access resources at the University of Zululand.Open access resources are key to assisting institutions in strengthening their research and this study sought to investigate how the institution had progressed in doing this while acting as an awareness tool so that previously uninformed researchers could become knowledgeable about resources available to them. This research was underpinned by the pragmatic paradigm, to effectively carry out mixed method research. This study was conducted within the natural setting of the research problem and was guided by case study design using a qualitative approach to collect data that helped to understand the population under study in depth. Data was collected directly from the target population by way of questionnaires and focus groups targeted at the researcher population and semi-structured interviews with the information librarians. The questionnaires were used in a survey to gather both qualitative data from open-ended questions and quantitative data from closed-ended questions and the focus group discussion points were not restrictive. This meant that both qualitative and quantitative data were collected concurrently thus saving time. The data from the information librarians was qualitative and assisted in getting a view from the staff tasked with bringing about awareness and promotion of these resources. The target populations for this study were researchers at the University of Zululand and information librarians. Included as researchers were postgraduate students of all faculties at the University of Zululand and academic staff. This brought the target population to 1515 (one thousand five hundred and fifteen) researchers and all four information librarians were targeted. It must be noted that the researcher number also includes some members of the academic staff who are studying part-time. The target population was stratified with the intention of getting respondents in proportion to their numbers at different academic levels and therefore achieve a measure of representivity in an effort to attain external validity. Stratified random sampling was employed across academic levels to sample respondents for participation in the questionnaire survey and the focus group discussions. This resulted in a total of one hundred and twenty-five (125) questionnaires being handed out. Of these, 96 were returned representing a response rate of 76.8%. The study held three focus group discussions with a total of fifteen (15) researchers participating. The study found that not all researchers are aware of the OA resources at their disposal. Of those who are aware, some are not always willing to make use of them or make their own work openly accessible. Researchers expressing awareness could not all be drawn to provide specific named examples of OA databases they use. This suggests a lack of thorough knowledge as to what OA is, while at the same time showcasing the challenges that come from the pressure to “publish or perish”, particularly in the Department of Higher Education and Training-approved journals. Challenges highlighted to using open access resources by researchers included poor or inadequate university ICT infrastructure and lack of adequate information literacy skills. While the university is not idle, there is need for further awareness and training activities to take place for researchers to realize the maximum potential of the open access movement. This will assist in challenging the negative perceptions attached to OA and at the same time promote them to those who are not familiar with these resources.

Für den Umstieg von Closed Access auf Open Access haben sich Article Processing Charges (APCs) als vorherrschendes Geschäftsmodell mit Verlagen etabliert. Die Bearbeitung und das Monitoring von APCs stellt, so die Ausgangsthese dieser Arbeit, Universitätsbibliotheken vor große Herausforderungen, da Publikationszahlen und -kosten stetig steigen. Die Arbeit erhebt den aktuellen Stand an acht Einrichtungen mittels leitfadengestützter qualitativer Expert*inneninterviews. Zur Auswertung der Interviews kam die inhaltlich-strukturierende qualitative Inhaltsanalyse zur Anwendung. Leitende Forschungsfragen für die Untersuchung waren: Wie gestalten sich die Workflows bei der Bearbeitung und dem Monitoring von APCs an deutschen Universitätsbibliotheken? Welche Arbeitsinstrumente kommen zum Einsatz? Sind die eingesetzten Systeme interoperabel? Welche Metadaten werden wo erfasst? Was wissen die Bibliotheken über dezentrale Kosten? Die Auswertung der Studie zeigt, dass effiziente und skalierbare Arbeitsprozesse und -instrumente an deutschen Universitätsbibliotheken nur begrenzt etabliert sind, sich jedoch im Aufbau befinden. Die Workflows sind oftmals von fehlender Interoperabilität der eingesetzten Arbeitsinstrumente geprägt. Die acht Einrichtungen organisieren die einzelnen Workflowschritte sehr heterogen. Eine zentrale Rechnungsabwicklung für alle Publikationskosten einer Universität ist nicht üblich. Für die Bearbeitung und Überwachung von APCs kommen in der Regel mehrere Arbeitsinstrumente zum Einsatz, die von Bibliothek zu Bibliothek variieren. Die wenigsten Bibliotheken dokumentieren alle für das Monitoring empfohlenen Metadaten. Zudem erfasst kaum eine Einrichtung alle Metadaten in einem einzigen Informationssystem. Sehr detaillierte Kenntnisse besitzen die Bibliotheken bezüglich der Kosten, die über Publikationsfonds abgewickelt werden. Hier ist das Monitoring etabliert und funktioniert gut. Anders verhält es sich mit dezentralen Kosten, sodass ein Überblick über die Gesamtkosten des Publizierens oftmals fehlt.:1 Einleitung 2 Hintergrund – Open-Access-Transformation 2.1 Open Access 2.2 Der Goldene Weg 2.3 Geschäftsmodell Article Processing Charges 2.4 Publikationsfonds 2.5 Kosten 2.6 Initiativen 3 Ausgangslage – Bearbeitung und Monitoring von APCs 3.1 Workflows zur Bearbeitung von APCs 3.2 Arbeitsinstrumente für die Bearbeitung und das Monitoring von APCs 3.3 Interoperabilität zwischen den Arbeitsinstrumenten 3.4 Erfassung von Metadaten 3.5 Erfassung dezentraler Kosten 4 Methodisches Vorgehen 4.1 Forschungsdesign 4.2 Erhebungsmethode – leitfadengestütztes qualitatives Expert*inneninterview 4.2.1 Erhebungsinstrument – Interviewleitfaden 4.2.2 Stichprobe – Auswahl der Expert*innen 4.2.3 Durchführung der leitfadengestützen Expert*inneninterviews 4.3 Aufbereitung des Materials – Transkription 4.4 Auswertungsmethode – inhaltlich-strukturierende qualitative Inhaltsanalyse 5 Ergebnisbericht 5.1 Workflow zur Bearbeitung von APCs 5.1.1 Arbeitsschritte 5.1.2 Medienbrüche 5.1.3 Zusammenarbeit mit Dienstleistern 5.1.4 Verantwortlichkeiten 5.2 Arbeitsinstrumente für die Bearbeitung und das Monitoring von APCs 5.3 Interoperabilität der Arbeitsinstrumente 5.4 Erfassung Metadaten 5.4.1 Erfasste Metadaten und Arbeitsinstrumente 5.4.2 Erfassung dezentraler Kosten 5.4.3 Reports 5.5 Herausforderungen bei der Bearbeitung und beim Monitoring von APCs 5.6 Was funktioniert gut bei der Bearbeitung und beim Monitoring von APCs 5.7 Bewertung des Geschäftsmodells APC 6 Zusammenfassung und Diskussion der Ergebnisse 6.1 Workflow zur Bearbeitung von APCs 6.2 Arbeitsinstrumente für die Bearbeitung und das Monitoring von APCs 6.3 Interoperabilität zwischen den Arbeitsinstrumenten 6.4 Erfassung von Metadaten 6.5 Herausforderungen bei der Bearbeitung und beim Monitoring von APCs 6.6 Was funktioniert gut bei der Bearbeitung und beim Monitoring von APCs 6.7 Bewertung des Geschäftsmodells APCs 7 Fazit

The movement towards open access has allowed academic researchers to communicate and share their scholarly content more widely by being freely available to Internet users. However, there are still issues of concern among faculty in regards to making their scholarly output open access. This study surveyed Virginia Tech faculty (N = 264) awareness and attitudes toward open access practices. In addition, faculty were asked to identify factors that inhibited or encouraged their participation in open access repositories. Findings indicate that while the majority of Virginia Tech faculty are seeking to publish in open access, many are unaware of the open access services provided by the university and even less are using the services available to them. Time, effort, and costs were identified as factors inhibiting open access and data sharing practices. Differences in awareness and attitudes towards open access were observed among faculty ranks and areas of research. Virginia Tech will need to increase faculty awareness of institutional open access repositories and maximize benefits over perceived costs if there is to be more faculty participation in open access practices. / Master of Arts

The following thesis concerns the conceptualization of openness within the open access movement. Open accesscan be understood as a phenomenon or a movement that aims at changing the current system of scholarly communication.Consequentially, the movements goals arose in relation to the escalating serials crisis in scholarly communicationand the increasing power of commercial publishers. The purpose of the thesis is to study three centralopen access declarations with the aim of uncovering the different conceptualizations of openness found withinthese texts. Leaning on the theoretical position known as actor-network theory, the declarations role within a surroundingnetwork is explored by focusing on how openness as a concept has been produced and reproduced bycentral actors. Two overarching questions frames the study: How is openness conceptualized within the declarations?And how can openness, as a concept, be understood as an effect generated by a larger network?The first part of the study focuses on the first question. In order to provide an answer I have conducted athematically structured text analysis of the declarations. The results of this part show that openness, in relation toopen access, is part of a discourse where research is considered a public good. I claim that this indicates thatopenness is related to the larger questions of information freedom and the enclosure of intellectual commons.The purpose of openness is described within the declarations as contributing to mechanisms of decentralized controlover information, which in itself generates a greater efficiency and lower costs in regards to scholarly communication.The second part of the study is concerned with the larger, overarching network and in what way the conceptualizationof openness can be seen as a network generated effect. To answer this question I deploy the theoreticaltools provided by ANT. Focus lies on how the declarations relate to each other and on how central actors havecontributed to the conceptualizations. The results show that openness and open access has shifting meanings thathave been modified in various ways. They also show that actors through a collective negotiation process defineand shape the meaning of openness by circulating ideas on electronic dissemination and distributed processes

Open access has played a significant part in the development of scholarlycommunication. Today, several research funding agencies around the worldrequires that the results of the research it supports must be published openaccess where the underlying idea is that publicly funded research should befree and available to all users. The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the issueof open access publishing from the perspective of researchers in the field ofodontology, focused on their attitudes, behaviors and publishing experienceswith open access. Through a qualitative interview study with fiveodontological researchers, the results have been compared to previous studieson researchers' attitudes and experiences with open access. The results showthat both knowledge and experience with open access publishing is fairly lowamong the participating scientists. Generally, a positive attitude towards openaccess in other research areas can be identified among odontologicalresearchers, but when it comes to publishing within their own discipline openaccess is considered to be insignificant, so due to the availability of journalsamong the researchers considered to be adequate to cover their informationneeds. The results also identifies a negative view of open access publishingthrough institutional repositories, as these are not considered to add any valueto their career development. A quantitative study would have given a moregeneral view of researchers' attitudes and experiences of open accesspublishing. The results of this paper should therefore not be generalized andconsidered as representative of all researchers within the odontologicalresearch discipline. / Program: Bibliotekarie

The aim of this bachelor-thesis is to study how postgraduates approach open access during times of change within scholarly communication. Our theoretical framework is based upon Knorr Cetinas epistemic cultures and Cullen & Chawners theory that there is a paradigmatic conflict within scholarly communication due to the fact that open access has failed to reach the same level of prominence among researchers as it has within research libraries. We interviewed six postgraduates at Malmö högskola in order to find answers to our research questions. We identified a shared epistemic culture among the postgraduates, which can be explained by the fact that being postgraduates, they all share similar experiences and values. We chose to call this epistemic culture the horizontal epistemic culture. During the interviews institution-specific cultures were expressed as well. These institution-specific cultures we chose to call the vertical epistemic cultures. Our study shows that the basic principle of the open access movement, namely to make all research freely available, has encountered difficulties when it comes to being incorporated within both the horizontal and the vertical epistemic culture. The statements of the postgraduates unanimously show that open access is viewed neither as a concept nor as a real publishing-alternative for them. We can conclude that the statements of the postgraduates show a similar conflict between the traditional publishing system and open access publishing that Cullen and Chawner identified. Research libraries should be aware of these cultures in order to be able to collaborate more efficiently with the postgraduates. / Program: Bibliotekarie