UPC Research Institutional Repositories
UPC Institutional
Repositories
Marina.Casadevall
Marina.Casadevall@upc.edu
Montse Hidalgo
Montse.Hidalgo@upc.edu
Anna Rovira
Anna.Rovira@upc.edu
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació
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UPC Research Institutional Repositories
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Objectives
Strategy
Learning repositories
Research repositories
Technical matters
Conclusions
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UPC Research Institutional Repositories
Objectives
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To offer a tool for publishing academic
works in electronic format
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To organize and preserve UPC’s
intellectual heritage
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To greatly increase UPC’s visibility in the
world
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UPC Research Institutional Repositories
Summary
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Learning repositories
Research repositories
Technical matters
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UPC Research Institutional Repositories
Strategy: repositories
Separate repositories:
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E-prints: https://upcommons.upc.edu/e-prints/
University journals and congresses: https://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/
Students’ work: https://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/
Learning materials: http://e-md.upc.edu/home/
Videos: http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/video/
Theses: http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/
Why did we decide to create different repositories?
– To facilitate organization (one librarian is responsible for each repository)
– To be able to fit different document data into metadata
– To fully integrate with other university platforms (such as Virtual Campus, based on
Moodle and the Electronic Information Services for Academic Activity)
However
– The cost of supporting repositories is higher
– Content is dispersed
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Strategy: access to all repositories
https://upcommons.upc.edu/
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Global access to UPC knowledge
Metasearch in all UPC repositories
Electronic documents and information about support services (how to
digitize a thesis, how to submit documents, etc.)
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Strategy: human resources
 One computer technician for designing repositories
and improving software.
 One librarian responsible for content control and
management of each repository.
 In every UPC campus, there are librarians who:
 control and extend metadata
 feed-back between users and general services
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Strategy: repository support services
 SEPI: Intellectual Property Service
• Author rights
• Copyright policies (including e-journals and Creative Commons)
 Factories: teaching resource facilities
• Convert traditional formats into digital formats (print journals, theses, etc.)
• Video digitization
 Subject librarian:
• Liaison with university departments for diffusion of the project and training
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Summary
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Objectives
Strategy
Learning repositories
Research repositories
Technical matters
Conclusions
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Learning repositories: course materials
UPCOpenCourseWare (5.852 documents)
http://e-md.upc.edu/home/
 Inspired by MIT’s Open Course Ware
 Provides access to UPC’s course materials for educators and
students
 Not all its content is open access
 Not (yet) with a DSpace repository
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Learning repositories: students’ work
Students’ work (1.587 documents)
https://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/
 Students’ work (final degree projects, minor theses, recognition of foreign diplomas/theses,
etc.) presented by university students at UPC.
 Accessed both from inside the University – by other students preparing their final degrees -
and outside.
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Learning repositories: videos
UPC Digital Library (226 videos)
http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/video/
 Institutional activities or learning activities
 Migration to a DSpace application
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Summary
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Objectives
Strategy
Learning repositories
Research repositories
Technical matters
Conclusions
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UPC Research Institutional Repositories
Research repositories: E-prints
E-prints UPC (698 pre-prints or post-prints)
https://upcommons.upc.edu/e-prints/
The E-prints repository collects documents generated by academics in their research
activities.
Communities: schools, departments, laboratories or research groups.
Workflow:
 Selfarchive (authors)
 Peer review (optional)
 Protect and extend metadatas (subject librarians)
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Research repositories: Journals and Congresses
UPC Journals and Congresses (2.434 articles)
https://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/
This repository compiles the full texts of e-journal articles and proceedings published by any
scholar or research department of the university.
Workflow:
 Archive (journal support personnel or auxilliar librarians)
 Control and extend metadatas (subject librarians)
 Electronic submission using DSpace
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Summary
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Objectives
Strategy
Learning repositories
Research repositories
Technical matters
Conclusions
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5. Technical matters:
DSpace:
OS:
Web server:
Database:
Storage:
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2005, 1.3.1 now 1.4.1 version (4 instances of
DSpace)
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Apache Tomcat/5.0.28
PostgreSQL 7.4.6
1200 GB = 1,2 TB
UPC Research Institutional Repositories
5. Technical matters:
Future improvements:
 Statistics (Add-on from the University of Minho)
 Customized submission forms
 Authority control (link to catalogue and name capture)
 UPC subject headings authority
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6. Conclusions
Campus digital
SOAP
OAI-MHP
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OAI-MHP
RACO
E-prints
Information System
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RECERCAT
Journals and congresses
Scientific Output
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OAISter
Students’ work
OAI-MHP
UPCommons
Course materials
OAI-MHP
TDX
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6. Conclusions
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Good acceptance,
Good strategy,
Collections are growing
but… there’s still a lot of work to do with UPC IRR!
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UPC Research Institutional Repositories
Thank you for your attention!
Marina.Casadevall
Marina.Casadevall@upc.edu
Montse Hidalgo
Montse.Hidalgo@upc.edu
Anna Rovira
Anna.Rovira@upc.edu
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Servei de Biblioteques i Documentació
DSpace User Group Meeting 2007