1. Roser Gómez roser.gomez@upc.edu Marta López marta.lopez-vivancos@upc.edu Anna Rovira anna.rovira@upc.edu Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Libraries The 26th Annual Conference Québec City, Québec, Canada May 29 – June 2, 2005 Research support services at UPC libraries

2. UPC and the University Library Research at UPC: 2010 horizon UPC libraries and research Library research services Accessing scientific information Extending “open access” at UPC Raising the awareness of the academic community TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server FènixDoc Research repository New library services UPC observatory of scientific publications UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI) Contents

3. MANRESA TERRASSA IGUALADA VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚCASTELLDEFELS BARCELONA SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS UPC locations

4. UPC Main indicators Period of reference Students33.4602003-04 Doctoral students2.6972003-04 Academic staff2.5312003-04 Research staff732003-04 Academic staff in education3482003-04 Administrative and service staff1.2802003-04 267.187,000 € budget2005 Degrees and diplomas462003-04 PhD programmes472003-04 Registered students of continuing education5.1332003-04

5. UPC libraries School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona, School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona, Barcelona School of Computer Science School of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa, College of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa College of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona University Campus of Manresa Technical School of Castelldefels College of Agricultural Engineering of Barcelona

6. UPC libraries Technical College of Barcelona School of Architecture of the Vallès College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona School of Engineering of Vilanova i la Geltrú Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona School of Architecture of Barcelona

7. Libraries main indicators Libraries13 Visitors2.873.000 Loans302.100 Holdings482.100 Books254.150 e-Journals6.770 Databases152 Users trained7.800 Reading places2.865 Staff93 librarians, 54 other staff Budget2.097.000€ (out of whole UPC budget 267.187.000€) Period of reference 2004

8. UPC and the University Library Research at UPC: 2010 horizon UPC libraries and research Library research services Accessing scientific information Extending “open access” at UPC Raising the awareness of the academic community TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server FènixDoc Research depository New library services UPC observatory of scientific publications UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI) Contents

9. Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (I) The environment: Europe: ERA (European Research Area) Spain: 2004-2007 National Plan for Research, Development and Technological Innovation Catalonia: 2005-2008 Plan for Research, Development and Technological Innovation

10. Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (III) Main lines of action: a strategic social agenda recruiting talent valuing the results of research new organisational formulas and contrasted quality 2005-2010 UPC Plan for Research, Development and Innovation

11. Marenostrum supercomputer, host at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (IV)

12. Architecture and Civil Engineering Social, Human and Life Sciences Physics and Chemistry Mathematics and Statistics Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Information and Communication Technologies Production Technologies Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (II) UPC Areas

13. UPC and the University Library Research at UPC: 2010 horizon UPC libraries and research Library research services Accessing scientific information Extending “open access” at UPC Raising the awareness of the academic community TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server FènixDoc Research depository New library services UPC observatory of scientific publications UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI) Contents

14. Paideia : Strategic plan of the UPC libraries 2000-2005 1.Learning – Library and Learning 2.Research – Library and Research 3.IT – Library and Network 4.Humanism – Library and Humanism 5.Management – Library and Organisation Libraries and Research (I)

15. 2005-2010 UPC Plan for Research, Development and Innovation: Libraries and Research (II) Libraries are included in important areas of this framework document, such as: the desire to strengthen channels that provide free and open access to the results of scientific and technological research, the intention to provide researchers with resources and services in their research areas through library management and specialised information services, cooperation in assessing research, etc.

16. Libraries and Research (III) Research Areas and Subject Librarians: Establishment of UPC’s research and learning areas Creation of subject-specific teams of librarians Training in basic knowledge Selecting and cataloguing resources

17. UPC and the University Library Research at UPC: 2010 horizon UPC libraries and research Library research services Accessing scientific information Extending “open access” at UPC Raising the awareness of the academic community TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server FènixDoc Research depository New library services UPC observatory of scientific publications UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI) Contents

18. By March 2005, its holdings amount to 6.800 e-journals: American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, Blackwell, Elsevier, JSTOR, PCI Full Text, SpringerLink, Wiley InterScience 3.650 e-books: Harrison's Online, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Safari Tech Books Online, Oxford Reference Online Core Collection 36 databases: Business Source Elite, IEEE Xplore, MathsSciNet, Zentralblatt Math and 22 Spanish databases Accessing scientific information (I)

19. UPC and the University Library Research at UPC: 2010 horizon UPC libraries and research Library research services Accessing scientific information Extending “open access” at UPC Raising the awareness of the academic community TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server FènixDoc Research depository New library services UPC observatory of scientific publications UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI) Contents

20. Raising the awareness of the academic community Budapest Open Access Initiative Spanish translation http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/rebiun/BOAI.pdf

21. Two days Workshop about Scholarly Communication: III Workshop Rebiun sobre proyectos digitales Raising the awareness of the academic community

22. Directory of Open Access Journal is also included in Bibliotècnica Raising the awareness of the academic community

23. Exhibition contents: Electronic publication, Internet and Scholarly Communication Authors Universities and Research Results University Libraries Open access Different strategic options “Towards open access communication” Raising the awareness of the academic community http://bibliotecnica.upc.es/e-portals/comunicacio_cientifica/

24. –A Catalan Consortia (CBUC) joint project –Remote search of full text documents –Guarantees their storage for future preservation –More than 1.000 e-dissertations from 10 Catalan universities –The future: Including all (nearly all) current theses in TDX Including old (print) theses and dissertations Promoting TDX as the embryo of an institutional repository for Catalan universities TDX: Online Doctoral Dissertations Server

25. http://www.tdx.cbuc.es TDX: Online Doctoral Dissertations Server

26. FènixDoc: full-text versions of the scientific output Fènix: –Referential database of UPC academic staff scientific production: Awards, scientific comittes, european projects conference Bibliographic references of books and journals articles and proceedings, patents and dissertations –Information for research evaluation FènixDoc: –Project undertaken by Research Planning Area and Libraries –Links the Fènix references with catalogue or full text when available FènixDoc

27. FènixDoc Funcionality Acces to scientific production by: Researcher name Department or Instute Research group Keyword FènixDoc

29. Research repository (I) The research repository aims to provide access to UPC scientific comunication: research reports, pre-prints and post-prints. The Dublin Core and additional administrative metadata are used to label documents, following the specifications set out by the CBUC. The system is managed by Dspace software. It is structured around the University’s research communities, and allows each community to customise the contents.

30. Research repository (II)

31. Comparative studies of the state of research at the UPC in relation to that of the main Spanish technical universities and other European universities (Cluster members) Sources of information used: Journal Citation Report and Third European Report on Science and Technology UPC observatory of scientific publications

33. UPC’s Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

34. We are working to: demonstrate our capacity for active cooperation in the University’s commitment to increase the quantity and quality of research, development and innovation endeavours at UPC adapt the library services to the requirements of the European Higher Education Area CONCLUSIONS

35. http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu Thanks for your attention