7 th Open Acces Conference 2nd - 3rd November 2009 Accra, Ghana Rodrigo Torréns Universidad de Los...

7th Open Acces Conference2nd - 3rd November 2009Accra, Ghana

Rodrigo TorrénsRodrigo Torréns

Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, VenezuelaMérida, Venezuela

Institutional Repository Institutional Repository saber.ula.vesaber.ula.ve

A testimonial perspectiveA testimonial perspective

Content Institutional Repositories Open Acces Initiatives in Venezuela Institutional Repositories in Venezuela Institutional Repository saber.ula.ve

Institutional Repository Institutional Repository saber.ula.vesaber.ula.veA testimonial perspectiveA testimonial perspective

Institutional Repositories (IIRR)

Are a collection of services committed to capture, preserve and disseminate contents produced by

knowledge communities.


Open Access Initiatives in Venezuela

Number of institution that has signed Berlín Declaration in Venezuela:One (1) Universidad de Los Andes

oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin


Institutional Repositories in Venezuela

Quantity of repositories and documents in ROAR directory:

7 Rep. 90.000 Docs.

roar.eprints.org


ULA, pionera en acceso abierto

Título

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Map of repositories location around the world

Institutional Repository saber.ula.ve

Located in Mérida, Venezuela, South America


Where is Mérida, Venezuela?

North of South America


Initial motivation and ideas

• The need for alternatives to current (costly) models to scholarly and scientific communication

• The opportunity brought by modern Information and Communication Technologies

C. Lynch, ARL, Association of Research Libraries


IR saber.ula.ve

• Created in 2.000

• 20.000 documents

• #42 of the world, #1 Latinamerica (webometrics ranking)

• 62 Electronic Journals

• Using Dspace platform

www.saber.ula.ve

webometrics.info


Stages of development of RI SABER ULA:

1. Building up the infrastructure (2000-2002)

2. Consolidating services (2002-2004)

3. Users and institutional recognition (2004-2006)

4. Enhancement of services (2006-2009)


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ArXiv: Los Alamos Archive

Dublin Core Metadata Standard

OAI-PMH interoperability protocol

saber.ula.ve

20 Journals in IR SABER

OAI-PMH in SABER

ULA 1st institutional recognition to authors publishing in SABER

ULA signs Berlin Declaration

ULA Institutional mandate about open access publishing

Institutional mandates about open access publishing all over the world

Berlin Declaration and DOAJ

Budapest OA, first version of Dspace platform for IR

Open Access Timeline. Open Access Timeline. ULA and the World ULA and the World

Acumulated documents in saber.ula.ve, 2000-2009

Simple strategies to to build the info-infrastructure of an IR...


Functions and main ingredients:

Content Task Force


Selection of platforms: centralized vs. distributed platforms a unique tool vs. an integrated set of them new interoperability tools, its standards and

trends


Most important factors surrounding IR operation:

The organization of the services The publisher incentives the content recruitment strategies OA promoting policies


“It is clear that the institutional repository is a very powerful idea that can serve as an engine

of change for our institutions of higher education”

Clifford Lynch. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age"

ARL, no. 226 (February 2003)


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