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). / Institutional Repositories (IRs) and ETD programs conducted in December 2011. The purpose of the survey was two-fold. The first was to show the growth of Institutional Repositories (IRs) across Canada. The second was to illustrate the state of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) submission programs at Canadian institutions. The survey was a follow up to a 2009 survey and illustrates there has been steady growth in both the number of IRs and ETD programs in Canada. Results of the survey include statistics on the number of IRs, types of materials in the IRs, the type software platform, the number of ETD programs, whether electronic submission is mandatory, if embargoed or restricted theses and dissertations are allowed, the number of institutions having their ETDs harvested by Library and Archives Canada and the number of institutions sending their theses to ProQuest and retaining a microfiche copy. The survey was sent to Canadian institutions where a thesis or dissertation is required for graduation and to Canadian institutions who are members of the Canadian Association for Research Libraries. Responses were received from 33 institutions. Best practices for ETD programs and workflows will also be discussed. Focus areas include the PDF format for multiple and multi-media files, OAI-PMH harvesting, mandatory submission and embargoes. By analyzing the results of the survey, it is clear that Canada is moving forward quickly in the implementation of ETD submission programs. The fact that over 70% of Canadian institutions have their ETDs harvested by Library and Archives Canada puts Canada, and it’s National Library, in a unique position to share its knowledge and expertise in ETD programs and ETD workflows.

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). / PUC-Rio – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro has a repository named the Maxwelll System (http://www.maxwell.lambda.ele.puc-rio.br/). ETDs and journals are stored and made available from this repository, as well as senior projects, learning objects, articles, etc. ETDs became mandatory as of August 1, 2002 and the first journal was published in June 2003. Two areas of the Center for Humanities and Theology – Education and Languages – have traditional and well known graduate programs; they are also the ones that publish the highest numbers of online journals (3 each). The Maxwell System is an OAI-PMH data provider and PUC-Rio’s ETDs have their metadata harvested by BDTD, the Brazilian National Consortium, NDLTD, Biblioteca Universia, etc. All journals are indexed on DOAJ. Both their ETDs and journals have significant numbers of accesses from Brazil and from abroad. This work addresses a comparison between the patterns of accesses between ETDs and journals in those areas. It focuses patterns for ETDs and journals in the same area, ETDs in the two areas, and journals in the two areas. All analysis takes into account accesses from: (1) Brazil; (2) Portuguese speaking countries; (3) Spanish speaking countries; and (4) all other countries. The numbers to be compared are either computed in percentages or are normalized since the sizes of the collections are quite different. Since the newest journal in the two areas began being published in March 2010, this paper focuses accesses from this month/year on. This means that data are available for over two years. Accesses to ETDs have already been examined and presented and published at previous ETD symposia.

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). / Title: Trends in Use of Citation Management Tools in Theses and Dissertations Authors: Charles J. Greenberg, Special Projects Librarian, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University Length of presentation: 20 minutes Objective: Citation Management (CM) tools for scholarly writing predate the web browser. The advantages of current cloud-based tools, either free or subscription, support the expectation that every academic candidate for an advanced degree has an opportunity to use CM tools. CM improves the efficiency of scholarly writing and improves the formatted appearance of the electronic thesis or dissertation (ETD). The expanding range of desktop and cloud-based CM alternatives may demand student attention and potentially detract from the completion process. Do universities with ETD programs use their academic libraries to support the CM selection process, or do universities limit choices? How have universities supporting ETDs reacted to the emergence of new credible CM applications that offer attractive options for certain disciplines or devices? Methods: A brief survey was distributed to the ETD support community and social networks to ascertain the impact of burgeoning choices in CM for both students and the ETD administrative staff. Results: Pending survey and analysis Conclusions: Pending survey and analysis

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.

The University of Bradford currently have a number of digital repositories within the University but it does not have an institutional repository. The partly JISC-funded project (Bradford University Repository Project - BURP!) aims to address the lack of a centrally managed repository for the University's research output. This article gives a brief update of the progress in the one-year project commenced in March 2009.

Το RDF (Resource Description Framework), πρότυπο του W3C, είναι ένα μοντέλο δεδομένων για την αναπαράσταση πληροφορίας στον Παγκόσμιο Ιστό και αποτελεί τη θεμελίωση ενός συνόλου τεχνολογιών για τη μοντελοποίηση κατανεμημένης γνώσης στο Σημαντικό Ιστό. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία περιλαμβάνει τη μελέτη της τεχνολογίας RDF και της σημασιολογικής επέκτασης αυτής, του RDF Schema. Επίσης, στα πλαίσια αυτής της μελέτης έγινε συγκριτική αξιολόγηση των ήδη υπαρχόντων αρχιτεκτονικών για την αποθήκευση και επεξεργασία δεδομένων RDF, εκτιμώντας παράλληλα τη συμπεριφορά τους στην περίπτωση των κατανεμημένων αποθεμάτων. Επιπρόσθετα, αξιολογήθηκαν οι δυνατότητες που προσφέρει σε τέτοιους μηχανισμούς η γλώσσα SPARQL, μια γλώσσα επερωτήσεων για RDF η οποία αποτελεί πρότυπο του W3C. Τέλος, ερευνήθηκαν στο επίπεδο των κατανεμημένων αποθεμάτων δύο πολύ σημαντικά χαρακτηριστικά αυτής της τεχνολογίας, η δυνατότητα συνδυασμού των δεδομένων και της εξαγωγής συμπερασμάτων (inferencing) και η υποστασιοποίηση (reification). Στο τελευταίο στάδιο, και βάσει της παραπάνω αποτύπωσης, πραγματοποιήθηκε η ανάπτυξη μιας εφαρμογής σε γλώσσα Java, η οποία επιτρέπει τη σύνδεση σε ένα ή περισσότερα απομακρυσμένα ή και τοπικά αποθέματα RDF, διαθέτοντας τον απαραίτητο μηχανισμό αποστολής επερωτήσεων (queries) προς αυτά. Η συγκεκριμένη εφαρμογή επιτυγχάνει τον κατάλληλο συνδυασμό των διαθέσιμων κατανεμημένων πληροφοριών και την εξαγωγή συμπερασμών, μια διαδικασία που αποτελεί πρωταρχικό στόχο στο πεδίο του Σημαντικού Ιστού. Για την αξιολόγηση των χαρακτηριστικών της χρησιμοποιήθηκαν απλά παραδείγματα που επιβεβαιώνουν την ορθή λειτουργία της και φανερώνουν το εύρος των δυνατοτήτων της. Άλλωστε, η επεκτασιμότητα και η αξιοπιστία ενός τέτοιου μηχανισμού αποτέλεσαν τη φιλοσοφία πάνω στην οποία στηρίχθηκε η ανάπτυξη του, λαμβάνοντας συγχρόνως υπόψη τα ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά των κατανεμημένων αποθεμάτων εγγράφων RDF. / RDF (Resource Description Framework), a W3C recommendation, is a data model for representing information in the World Wide Web and constitutes the foundation of many existent technologies for the modeling of distributed knowledge in the Semantic Web. This thesis includes a study of the RDF technology and of its semantic extension, RDF Schema. Also, a comparative evaluation was made among already existing frameworks for the storage and management of RDF data, appreciating their behavior in the case of distributed repositories. Moreover, an evaluation was made for the possibilities that SPARQL offers in such mechanisms, a RDF query language and soon a W3C recommendation. Finally, two very important characteristics of this technology were researched in the field of distributed repositories, the possibility of combination of data and export of conclusions (inferencing) and reification. In the last part, and based on the above imprints, an application was developed in Java, which allows the connection to one or more remote and local RDF repositories, having the necessary mechanism as well for making queries. This application successfully combines distributed knowledge and leads to inferencing, something that is a fundamental objective in the field of Semantic Web. For the evaluation of this application's characteristics, simple examples were used that confirm its proper function and reveal the breadth of its possibilities. Scalability and reliability have been the main goals during this application's development phase, having always in mind that we refer to distributed RDF repositories, which are more complicated and have some special characteristics.

Scholarly and scientific communication has a long history, while the Open Access (OA) movement began to take part in this communication with the emergence of Internet in the late 1960s and the web that emerged in mid-1990s. OA is beneficial for sharing knowledge because the OA movement demands scholarly literature freely available on the internet and it is free of most licensing restriction copyright. OA will close the barrier of access to knowledge. The OA movement in Indonesia may be considered slow. So far, only 33 academic libraries have registered their repositories with OpenDOAR, which is still small compared to the total number of HE institutions in Indonesia. Those 33 OARs vary in the stages of development. Some have already had large size of contents, while others are still developing. Using Weiner’s theory of organizational readiness for change, this mixed method investigates the readiness of academic librarians for Open Access Repository implementation. The results show that academic librarians in Indonesia are somewhat familiar with OA and OAR. However, their understanding of OA is still limited to the technical nature of it. They also know the benefits of OA in relation to scholarly communication and are ready to implement OAR, but the implementation was mostly based on the goal of achieving a specific rank in the world-class university ranking and Webometrics. They implemented Open Access Repositories with limited technological infrastructure, skills, and limited knowledge of OA.

The goal of this thesis is to analyze, compare and evaluate available institutional repositories (IR) in Czechia, which are stored in the DSpace system. The development of IR and its circumstances is described through comparison of information available from registry of repositories, journals articles, presentations, and qualitative interviews. Each IR was compared by version, area of expertise, types of stored documents, organization, language mutations, number of records, administration of data entry and data exit processes, system login and user rights. A bigger part of this thesis is dedicated to search options and metadata. As a result of that the analysis of collected data brought a summary of characteristics and system options. It highlighted the positives such as the system integration of repositories, as well as negatives such as overlooking of subject description. The result of the analysis are system atributes and options. brought a summary of the system's features and capabilities. She pointed out the positives as the ability of systematic interconnection of repositories and shortcomings in the form of neglecting the subject description.

Open access institutional repositories (OA IRs) are electronic systems that capture, preserve, and provide access to the scholarly digital work of an institution. As a new channel of scholarly communications IRs offer faculty a new way to disseminate their work to a wider audience, which in turn can increase the visibility to their work and impact factors, and at the same time increase institutions prestige and value. However, despite the increased popularity of IRs in numbers, research shows that IRs remain thinly populated in large part due to faculty reluctance to participate. There have been studies on the topic of open access repositories with the focus on external factors (social or technological context) that affect faculty attitudes towards participation in IRs, and there is a lack of understanding of the internal factors and the psychology of the reluctance. The goal of this mix method study was to identify the overall factors that affect faculty attitudes towards participation in IRs and examine the extent to which these factors influenced faculty willingness to participate in IRs. First, from literature review and the Model of Factors Affecting Faculty Self-Archiving this study identified eleven factors that influenced faculty members' intention to participate in OA repositories. Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) postulated that faculty intention to participate in IR was determined by three categories of factors: five attitudinal, four external (social) and two individual factors. Within the framework of the TPB this study (1) confirmed the measurement scale for each factor using principal component analysis, (2) it examined the influence that each factor had on the faculty likelihood to participate in IR using logistic regression, and (3) it weighted the relative importance of each factor on faculty intent to participate, utilizing relative weight analysis. Quantitative analysis revealed that four out of 11 factors proved to be statistically significant in faculty members' intention to participate in IRs; difficulty with the submission process, discoverability access and readership, altruism, and faculty perception of IRs as low-quality publishing venues. While qualitative analysis revealed that more than half of the faculty remain unfamiliar with OA and its goals, and while they supported the principles of OA, they also had a myriad of concerns regarding participation in IRs.