1. ETD 2017 Symposium – Exploring Global Connections
Improving the visibility of institutional repository, digital theses and research data: the case of the Peruvian University for Applied Sciences
Miguel Saravia López de Castilla, Liliana Eléspuru Briceño, Libio Huaroto, André Maguiña Ballón, Agnes Dibós Muñoz, Said Castro
August 7-9, 2017
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2. About Peruvian Network Repositories UPC University Visibility
Outline
About Peruvian Network Repositories
UPC University
Visibility
Strategies
Metrics
Conclusion
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3. UPC Academic Repository
Alicia and Renati
ALICIA portal
Law 30035
México
RENATI portal Theses and dissertations
Colombia
2013
2016
China
Open access Peruvian digital portal of science and technology.
Managed by CONCYTEC.
documents in open access.
Peruvian digital portal of theses and dissertations in open and restricted access.
Managed by Sunedu.
record:
- Bachelor's degree =
Master's degree= 8 375
Doctoral degree = 1 668
UPC Academic Repository
2013
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4. About UPC Graduate studies 17 master's degree programs 60 000 students
(undergraduate and graduate programs)
Undergraduate studies
13 faculties
54 academic programs
4 campuses
UPC is the first Peruvian university institutionally accredited by WASC
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5. UPC Academic Repository
Implemented in 2013.
Features
Standards: DC, ETDMS, OAI-PMH, DRIVER.
Identifiers: ORCID, DOI, HANDLE.
Contents: theses, articles, books, conferences, research data, final works of courses, interviews, photographs and videos.
Quantity: 6065 records.
Politics
Open access for all theses (exception for proposed patent or publication of scientific articles).
Style sheet for theses.
Incorporation of ORCID and DOI in theses.
Use of Creative Commons Licenses.
Authorization formats.
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6. Visibility of UPC Academic Repository: objectives
The visibility includes the following aspects:
Position in the Webometrics Ranking Repositories.
Increase in the number of file downloads.
Metadata interoperability.
Interactions in social networks.
Objetives
Disseminate through the Internet the intellectual production generated by the university community UPC.
Positioning the UPC Academic Repository and the academic journals portal in social networks.
Evaluate the impact of the use of the contents in the social networks and in specialized tools of positioning in the Web.
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7. Visibility of UPC Academic Repository: strategies
Description
Strategy 1
Metadata standards
Dublin Core, ETDMS, OAI-PMH, OpenAire, DRIVER.
Thesauri
OECD, MESH, UNESCO, among others
Strategy 2
Interoperability
ALICIA, NDTLD, OATD, WorldCat, CORE, among others.
Memberships
COAR, NDLTD, ORCID
Strategy 3
Altmetrics and dissemination in social media
Altmetric Explorer and dissemination in commercial and academic social media.
Strategy 4
File optimization
Technique to make it easier for search engines to quickly locate PDF files.
Strategy 5
Identifiers
ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, DOI.
Strategy 6
Datasets collection
Strategy 7
Ranking of repositories
Webometrics Ranking of Repositories
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8. Strategy 1- Metadata standards
Dublin Core
ETD-MS
OAI-PMH
Geospatial Metadata Standards And Guidelines
OpenAire (data repositories)
ISO Trusted Digital Repositories
Namespace
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9. Strategy 2 - Metadata Interoperability
Google
Scholar
NDLTD
LA REFERENCIA
(Latin America)
WorldCat (OCLC)
ALICIA (Peru)
UPC Academic
Repository
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
RENATI (Peru)
CORE (Connecting REpositories)
OATD
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10. Strategy 2 - Membership Institutions
COAR Confederation of Open Access Repositories
NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
ORCID
Open Researcher and Contributor ID Institutional subscription for UPC
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11. Strategy 3 - Altmetrics Implemented in January 2015.
Altmetric score: Donut.
Free version (institutional repository).
Identifiers to collect information (DOI, Handle, URL, PMID).
Standard NISO RP x-1, 2 and 3.
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12. Strategy 3 – Social networks*
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13. Strategy 3 – Social networks
Postcron
Subscription to this tool (up to 5 social networks).
Easiest way to schedule post on facebook, Twiter, Google+, others.
Easy publishing content (imagen and videos).
DLVR.IT
Free tool (up to 3 social networks).
it does not integrate in a easy way for images
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14. Strategy 4 - Optimization files
Type of files:
PDF
PPTX
Word
EPUB
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15. Strategy 5 – ORCID
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16. Strategy 5 – Google Scholar Profile
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17. Strategy 5 – Identifier DOI to theses
UPC University subscribed to CrossRef, specifically for articles (Ene 2015).
A project to assign DOI to theses was carried out (March - June 2017).
In July the project was approved. UPC University is the first institution in Peru to assign DOI to theses.
Use web form for validate metadata and DOI in CrossRef.
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18. Strategy 5 – DOI to thesis, book and other types
Theses
Type of document
Handle
Prefix
Books
ISBN
Prefix
Other documents
Prefix
Handle
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19. Strategy 5 – Web deposit form DOI to theses
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20. Strategy 5 –DOI to theses
Thesis
Book
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21. Strategy 6 – Datasets collection
National legislation was approved for "Open Government Data Strategy for Peru " (DS-N° PCM).
UPC University:
Mainly contents Software Engineering Programme:
Open source software (Web application, tablet interface and tv interface).
Installation and configuration guide.
Script to create a databases, triggers (MySQL,SQL Database)
Interface TV
Interface Tablet
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22. Scholar Google (30%) Total number of entries in Google Scholar.
Strategy 7 - Ranking Web of Repositories
Repositories
Size (10%) Number of pages from Google, Live Search, Yahoo, Search and Exalead. Include all rich files and subdomains.
Social (10%) Best way for promoting documents is use social networks. Count mentions in these tool: Academia, CiteUlike, CrossRef, Facebook, Figshare, Google+, others).
Scholar Google (30%) Total number of entries in Google Scholar.
Visibilidad (50%) Total number of refering subnets from the link info providers majestic & Ahrefs tools.
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23. Strategy 7 - Ranking Web of Repositories
World rank for UPC Academic Repository
Peruvian rank for UPC Academic Repository
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24. Metrics – Donwload PDF files
Ene 2014 – Jul 2017
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25. Metrics – Download EPUB files
Ene 2015 – Jul 2017
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26. Metrics – Access and download datasets
Nov 2016 – Jul 2017
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27. Conclusion Strategies have allowed:
Improve position for UPC Academic Repository in Webometric Ranking for Repositories.
Improve social network positioning for contents of UPC Academic Repository.
Measure the impact social network activity through Altmetrics.
DOI as a way of traceability of citation in digital theses.
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