8th International Simposium of Theses & Dissertations

28-30 September, 2005. Sydney, Australia

Digital theses in PeruToward the implementation of the National

web page of digital theses and dissertations

Libio Huaroto P.Biblioteca Central

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM)Lima – Perú

lhuaroto@unmsm.edu.pe

Content

• Background

• Characteristics

• Statistics

• On schedule

Background

• In 2001, the Biblioteca Central, coordinator of Sistema de Bibliotecas de la UNMSM, submitted the entitled project: “ Digitalization of San Marcos theses and dissertations on full text on Internet”.

This project was aproved throught R. R. N° 01061-R-02 dated on February 14th, 2002.

“To authorize the publication on full text of thesesand dissertations on the UNMSM virtual library´s web page,only with the authors´s permission” (Art. 3).

Characteristics

• Free access for full text

• Html and PDF formats (chapter and full text)

• Index: authors, academic grade, year of publication and areas (develop manually)

• Average of time for publications for each theses: 27 hours

Receptionde files oftheses

Verificationof content

CatalogingProcess

Digitalprocess

Publicationon Internet

Digital thesis process

Cybertesis Peru“Using standards to improve

the process”

Project submitted to the Fonds Francophone des Inforoutes and to UNESCO in 1998, by the universities of Montreal, Lyon and Alexandria(Egypt). In the year 1999, the Universidad de Chile and Geneve University (Switzerland) were also included.

In Latin America there are 5 chilean universities which are part of the project since 2003. In 2004, Colombia and Peru have started their participation each one throught one university.

In Peru, the project started with the signature of one aggrement between the UNMSM and the Universidad de Chile, on November 2003. The web page Cybertesis Peru was launched on June, 2004.

Background

Characteristics• Standards for exchange information (OAI-PMH, DC, XML,TEI Lite and others)

• Use free software (linux, open office java, html, pdf, sdx and others)

• Search and retrieve informations systems

• Multilingüe interfases

• Tools for monitoring, statisctics and ranking of theses

• Average of time for publications for each theses: 8 hours

• Permit develop and implement new characteristics

Printed theses 2002-2005

Acceptance form

Published onBDThesisFull text

(from Feb. 2002to Jun. 2004)

Publishedin Cybertesis

Full text(from June 2004

until now)

2352 1250 395 330

Number of digital theses in Central Libray UNMSMfrom 2002 to 2005

Statistics of Portal Web CYBERTESIS PERUwww.cybertesis.edu.pe

Octuber 2004 – August 2005

Total of visits: 27,506

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On schedule:

•To built a national web page covering the information about theses and dissertations.

• To implement new methodological tools to Cybertesis (such as Thesaurus, forum, and others) in order to spread the improvements among the members of the network.

• To get funds to increase the number of digital theses and dissertations on line.

•To design and develop strategies promoting the participation of the academic areas on Cybertesis.

Thank very much for your

attention ¡¡

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