Improving the visibility of institutional repository, digital theses and research data: the case of the Peruvian University for Applied Sciences

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

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas

Miguel Saravia López de Castilla, Liliana Eléspuru Briceño, Libio Huaroto, André Maguiña Ballón, Agnes Dibós Muñoz, Said Castro

August 7-9, 2017

Outline

• About Peruvian Network Repositories• UPC University• Visibility• Strategies• Metrics• Conclusion

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas ETD2017


China

MéxicoColombia

2013

2013 2016

UPC AcademicRepository

ALICIA portal

Law 30035

RENATI portal Theses and

dissertations

• Open access Peruvian digital portal of science and technology.

• Managed by CONCYTEC.• 77 605 documents in

open access.

• Peruvian digital portal of theses and dissertations in open and restricted access.

• Managed by Sunedu.• 48 065 record:- Bachelor's degree = 38 061- Master's degree= 8 375- Doctoral degree = 1 668

Alicia and Renati

http://alicia.concytec.gob.pe

http://renati.sunedu.gob.pe/


About UPC

UPC is the first Peruvian universityinstitutionally accredited by WASC

4 campuses

Graduate studies17 master'sdegree programs

60 000 students(undergraduate and graduate programs)

Undergraduate studies13 faculties54 academic programs


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.

http://repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe/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.


Visibility of UPC Academic Repository: objectives

Objetives

• Disseminate through the Internet the intellectual productiongenerated by the university community UPC.

• Positioning the UPC Academic Repository and the academicjournals portal in social networks.

• Evaluate the impact of the use of the contents in the socialnetworks and in specialized tools of positioning in the Web.

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.


Visibility of UPC Academic Repository: strategies

Strategies Description

Strategy 1Metadata standardsDublin Core, ETDMS, OAI-PMH, OpenAire, DRIVER. ThesauriOECD, MESH, UNESCO, among others

Strategy 2InteroperabilityALICIA, NDTLD, OATD, WorldCat, CORE, among others.MembershipsCOAR, NDLTD, ORCID

Strategy 3Altmetrics and dissemination in social mediaAltmetric Explorer and dissemination in commercial and academic socialmedia.

Strategy 4File optimizationTechnique to make it easier for search engines to quickly locate PDF files.

Strategy 5IdentifiersORCID, Google Scholar Profile, DOI.

Strategy 6 Datasets collection

Strategy 7Ranking of repositoriesWebometrics Ranking of Repositories


Strategy 1- Metadata standards

Metadata standards

Dublin Core

ETD-MS

OAI-PMH

Geospatial Metadata Standards And Guidelines

OpenAire (data repositories)

ISO 16363 Trusted Digital Repositories

Namespacehttp://openrepository.com/current-researchhttp://openrepository.com/media-termshttp://openrepository.com/thesis


Strategy 2 - Metadata Interoperability

WorldCat(OCLC)

NDLTD

BASE (Bielefeld Academic

Search Engine)

OATD

CORE (Connecting

REpositories)

Google ScholarLA

REFERENCIA(Latin America)

ALICIA (Peru)

RENATI(Peru)

UPC AcademicRepository


Institutions

COARConfederation of Open Access Repositories

NDLTDNetworked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

ORCIDOpen Researcher and Contributor IDInstitutional subscription for UPC

Strategy 2 - Membership


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-25-201x-1, 2

and 3.


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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

Strategy 3 – Social networks


Strategy 4 - Optimization files

Type of files:• PDF• PPTX• Word• EPUB


Strategy 5 – ORCID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HtWL0euNhM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HtWL0euNhM


Strategy 5 – Google Scholar Profile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6lDDHC8eg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq6lDDHC8eg


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.


http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/tesis/621738

Theses

Type of document

HandlePrefix

http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/978-612-318-092-8

Books

ISBNPrefix

Other documents

http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/621650

Prefix Handle

Strategy 5 – DOI to thesis, book and other types


https://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/

Strategy 5 – Web deposit form DOI to theses


Thesis

Book

Strategy 5 –DOI to theses


Strategy 6 – Datasets collection

• National legislation was approved for "Open Government Data Strategy for Peru 2017-2021" (DS-N°016-2017-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 Tablet

Interface TV

http://datosabiertos.gob.pe


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.

http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/node/29

Strategy 7 - Ranking Web of Repositories


Peruvian rank for UPC Academic Repository

Strategy 7 - Ranking Web of Repositories

World rank for UPC Academic Repository


Metrics – Donwload PDF files

Ene 2014 – Jul 2017

136737

128488

187565

272484

330173

309996

235614

63465

87684

106565101359

132522125913 114241

128306

185320

192577

177809

113191

0

50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

400000

450000

500000

Ene Feb Mar Abr May Jun Jul Ago Set Oct Nov Dic

2017

2016

2015

2014

Linear (2017)


Metrics – Download EPUB files

Ene 2015 – Jul 2017

209

155

161

231249

196

374

124 140

77

21

115 126

551 579

304

518

438

705

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

Ene Feb Mar Abr May Jun Jul Ago Set Oct Nov Dic

2017

2016

2015

Linear (2017)


Metrics – Access and download datasets

30

18

28

38

28

21

39

23

15

3

10

2 2

10

24

20

13

6

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

Nov-16 Dec-16 Jan-17 Feb-17 Mar-17 Apr-17 May-17 Jun-17 Jul-17

Accesos

Descarga archivos

Nov 2016 – Jul 2017


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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