The free software community has developed a number of tools that are useful to researchers. This presentation introduces four tools: the LibX toolbar to extend library searching throughout your Web experience; the Zotero plug-in for collecting, organizing, and citing your research materials; the LU|ZONE|UL institutional repository built on DSpace for making your research openly accessible; and the quick lookup Linux laptops that have made quick searches fast and easy for library visitors and saved Laurentian University tens of thousands of dollars in hardware replacement costs.

For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpace™ that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Running such an institutionally-based, multidisciplinary repository is increasingly seen as a natural role for the libraries and archives of research and teaching organizations. As their constituents produce increasing amounts of original material in digital formats—much of which is never published by traditional means—the repository becomes vital to protect the significant assets of the institution and its faculty. The first part of this article describes the DSpace system including its functionality and design, and its approach to various problems in digital library and archives design. The second part discusses the implementation of DSpace at MIT, plans for federating the system, and issues of sustainability.

Last year at the ECDL 2004 conference, we reported some initial progress and experiences developing DSpace as an open source community-driven project [8], particularly as seen from an institutional manager’s viewpoint. We also described some challenges and issues. This paper describes the progress in addressing some of those issues, and developments in the DSpace open source community. We go into detail about the processes and infrastructure we have developed around the DSpace code base, in the hope that this will be useful to other projects and organisations exploring the possibilities of becoming involved in or transitioning to open source development of digital library software. Some new challenges the DSpace community faces, particularly in the area of addressing required system architecture changes, are introduced. We also describe some exciting new possibilities that open source development brings to our community.

As more and more output from research institutions is born digital, a means for capturing and preserving the results of this investment is required. To begin to understand and address the problems surrounding this task, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories collaborated with MIT Libraries over two years to develop DSpace, an open source institutional repository software system. This paper describes DSpace in the context of the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model. Particular attention is given to the preservation aspects of DSpace, and the current status of the DSpace system with respect to addressing these aspects. The reasons for various design decisions and trade-offs that were necessary to develop the system in a timely manner are given, and directions for future development are explored. While DSpace is not yet a complete solution to the problem of preserving digital research output, it is a production-capable system, represents a significant step forward, and is an excellent platform for future research and development.

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). / The advent of open access, digitised institutional repositories (IR) changed the way that research at universities and research institutions are stored, archived, accessed and generally managed. Statistics shows that only 3% of IRs in the world is situated in Africa. Most of these are found in institutions in Southern Africa. Nyambi (2011), Anbu (2008) and other authors report that there are more IRs in Africa, but lament that most are not accessible in open access. Research (Van Deventer & Pienaar, 2008; Rieger, 2011; Wells, 2009) and others, shows that effective information- and knowledge management, and an awareness of the value of open access to digital research information are pre-requisites for effective and sustainable IRs operations. Successful planning and implementation of an IR do not guarantee sustainability over time. This paper explores possible indicators of sustainability for IRs who are facing the well documented challenges experienced in African IRs.

In this paper we describe DSpace™, an open source system that acts as a repository for digital research and educational material produced by an organization or institution. DSpace was developed during two years’ collaboration between the Hewlett-Packard Company and MIT Libraries. The development team worked closely with MIT Libraries staff and early adopter faculty members to produce a ‘breadth-first’ system, providing all of the basic features required by a digital repository service. As well as functioning as a live service, DSpace is intended as a base for extending repository functionality, particularly to address long-term preservation concerns. We describe the functionality of the current DSpace system, and briefly describe its technical architecture. We conclude with some remarks about the future development and operation of the DSpace system.

Conferencia realizada en el marco del "II Congreso de Bibliotecas Universitarias y Especializadas", desarrollada los días 4 y 6 de Junio de 2015, en Santiago de Chile, Chile / liliana.elespuru@upc.edu.pe / libio.huaroto@upc.edu.pe / El trabajo describe la experiencia desarrollada sobre indicadores Altmetrics en el Repositorio Académico de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC / This presentation describes the experience about Altmetrics indicators at the Academic Repository, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Authors analyses the health scholarly publication.

Conferencia ETD2017, realizada en Washington DC, 7-9 de Agosto de 2017. / In the last three years Peru has gone through changes in the process of strengthening and disseminating open access, especially regarding digital theses and research or governmental data. Enactment of Law 30035, which establishes and regulates the Open Access National Digital Repository of Science, Technology and Innovation; the Regulations of the National Registry of Research Papers Submitted for Academic Degrees and Professional Titles, RENATI; the National Strategy for Open Governmental Data, Peru 2017-2021; and the Peruvian Open Governmental Data Model constitute all a legal framework that fosters open access. Within this context, since 2013 the Peruvian University for Applied Science, UPC, has implemented policies aimed to foster open access to academic and scientific information, as well to support the use of interoperable technological platforms. As a result, in March of 2013, the UPC Academic Repository was published. And, recently, UPC adopted as mandatory the open access publication of bachelor’s and master’s theses. In the last three years, the UPC Academic Repository ranked among the top in the Webometrics Repositories (Peru), and showed a significant improvement at the Latin American and World level: At the national level, it went from being ranked 13th in January 2013 to 3rd in January 2017. Worldwide, it went from being ranked 1,516th in January 2013 to 849th in January 2017. In Latin America, in January 2017 it was ranked 62nd among 217 repositories. All actions implemented have been complemented with the following strategies: the open access publication of the theses-related data; the use of diverse metadata standards —Dublin Core Qualifiers, ETD-MS, DRIVER 2.0 and OpenAIRE—; the use of the OAI-PMH interoperable protocol; the implementation of identifiers of digital content —DOI and Handle— and identifiers for users —ORCID and Google Profile—; and curation of digital content. Future activities will be oriented to increase visibility of the UPC repository contents. To this end, we have proposed the following: to use DOI in bachelor’s and master’s theses; increase the number of bibliographical records for theses and their data; monitor and assess consultations to UPC theses as shown by national repositories ALICIA and RENATI; and, finally, implement an automated system for managing theses integrated into the UPC Academic Repository.

nÃo hà / Apresenta os resultados da pesquisa cujo objetivo bÃsico foi avaliar o RepositÃrio Institucional da Universidade Federal do CearÃ, quanto à visibilidade interna e externa, a difusÃo e o acesso à produÃÃo cientÃfica dessa Universidade, sob dois enfoques: o primeiro à com base nas estatÃsticas fornecidas pelo prÃprio RI, bem como pelo OpenDOAR, e pelo Ranking Web of Repositories, evidenciando o status quo do RI/UFC em relaÃÃo aos demais da RegiÃo Nordeste, do Brasil e do Mundo. O segundo tem como foco a percepÃÃo da comunidade acadÃmica dos cursos de pÃs-graduaÃÃo dessa universidade sobre o RI/UFC. Os RepositÃrios institucionais sÃo sistemas de informaÃÃo cuja finalidade à tratar, organizar, representar, armazenar, gerenciar e disseminar coleÃÃes digitais referentes à produÃÃo intelectual dos membros de uma instituiÃÃo. Proporcionam visibilidade aos valiosos acervos para a pesquisa, alÃm de preservÃ-los e difundi-los. No Brasil, considera-se que esses repositÃrios estÃo sendo implementados nas universidades e institutos de pesquisa, desde as primeiras iniciativas de acesso aberto que o IBICT incentivou com o Manifesto Brasileiro de Apoio ao Acesso Livre a InformaÃÃo CientÃfica em 2005. Outra iniciativa ocorreu em 2009 quando o IBICT em parceria com a FINEP lanÃou o primeiro edital para implantaÃÃo de repositÃrios institucionais. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de cunho exploratÃrio-descritivo, tendo o funcionalismo como mÃtodo de sustentaÃÃo das anÃlises. O estudo empÃrico se deu no Ãmbito da UFC, mais precisamente no seu RepositÃrio Institucional. Os resultados da primeira etapa evidenciam que a comunidade do RI com maior quantitativo de documentos disponibilizado à a do Centro de Humanidades (CH), no entanto a que obteve mais visitas foi a da Faculdade de Economia, AdministraÃÃo, AtuÃrias, Contabilidade e Secretariado (FEAACS). TambÃm foi possÃvel identificar que a maioria dos documentos disponibilizados sÃo dissertaÃÃes e que o documento mais visitado e o com maior nÃmero de downloads pertence à Ãrea de SaÃde. Quanto aos dados coletados junto ao OpenDOAR, o RI/UFC aparece em 8 entre todos os RIÂs cadastrados com as mesmas caracterÃsticas do RI/UFC. Entre todos os RIÂs està na posiÃÃo 866, jà no Brasil aparece em 17 lugar e em 2 entre os da RegiÃo Nordeste. No Ranking Web of Repositories o RI /UFC aparece mundialmente em 515 lugar, na America Latina em 29Â, no Brasil està em 9 e em 2 na RegiÃo Nordeste, ressaltando que os indicadores em que ocupa a melhor posiÃÃo sÃo: Arquivo ricos e Google acadÃmico â 9Â. lugar em ambos. Quanto à segunda etapa evidenciou-se que a maioria dos pesquisados tem um conceito coerente sobre repositÃrio e sabem que e UFC tem um RI, no entanto nÃo costumam utilizÃ-lo, embora o considere muito importante para a UFC e para disponibilizar suas produÃÃes, pois contribuem para divulgaÃÃo, difusÃo e acesso a essas produÃÃes, favorecendo a novas pesquisas. Consideram-se satisfeitos com o RI, embora a maioria desconheÃa a polÃtica de informaÃÃo e algumas especificidades do RI. Assim, à possÃvel considerar que a visibilidade externa do RI/UFC està melhor do que a interna, necessitando de um amplo trabalho de divulgaÃÃo e de colaboraÃÃo entre as diversas unidades da universidade para mudar esse quadro e promover o povoamento e a visibilidade do seu RI

This study examines the scholarly communication activities in two scientific fields, chemistry and economics, in a Polish context. The dissertation aims at investigating what characterises the publishing choices of researchers and what supplementary forms for the dissemination of research output are used by scholars. In addition, the paper is looking into what are the views and awareness of open access and institutional repositories within this scientific community. This thesis gives the results of semi-structured interviews and an online survey at two academic faculties at a Polish technical university. As its theoretical framework, the study uses Whitley’s theory of the intellectual and social organisation of academic fields and Latour and Woolgar’s study regarding various motivations for publishing. The study found that there are some similarities between the two investigated disciplines, especially in the context of extra-disciplinary factors that have impact on scholars’ publishing choices. The study also revealed that the general awareness of open access is rather good among the participating academics, however the number of open access publications is not very high. In addition, the findings suggest that there were some misunderstanding about the definitions and functions of institutional repositories among scholars. / Program: Masterprogram: Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, Digitala bibliotek och informationstjänster