DiVA and Open Access

Flemish Library Association Aina Svensson, Uppsala University LibraryJune 14th 2012

About DiVA

• Started in 2000 – Electronic Publishing Centre (EPC), Uppsala– Purpose was primarily to publish doctoral theses

• A completely new version in 2008– combined system for full texts and bibliographic

references (evaluation/bibliometrics)• Built on open source software

DiVA Consortium

• A collaboration of 30 Scandinavian universities and research institutes using DiVA– all contribute to the system development– management and technical support in

Uppsala

DiVA portal contains 475 000 references, of which nearly 100 000 are in full text research publications and student theses

DiVA portal – a common search interfaceErsta Sköndal University CollegeGotland UniversityHalmstad UniversityJönköping UniversityKristianstad UniversityKarlstad UniversityLinköping UniversityLinnaeus UniversityMid Sweden UniversityMälardalen UniversityRed Cross University CollegeRoyal College of MusicRoyal Institute of TechnologySophiahemmet University CollegeStockholm School of EconomicsStockholm UniversitySwedish National Defence CollegeSwedish Polar Research SecretariatSödertörn UniversityThe Nordic Africa InstituteThe Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyThe Swedish School of Sport and Health SciencesUmeå UniversityUniversity College of Arts, Crafts and DesignUniversity of GävleUniversity of SkövdeUniversity WestUppsala UniversityÖrebro University

DisseminationHow DiVA is used

Long-term storage, persistent links

Digital archiving student theses

CV/web pages

LIBRIS

SwePub

dissertations.seessay.se

DRIVER/ OpenAIRE

Google, Google Scholar etc.

Europeana

BASE

Print-on-demand

Open accessself-archiving

Evaluation,bibliometrics

Scirus

Coming theses

How to find full texts in DiVA?

Number of full texts downloaded in total = 10 millionNumber of downloaded web pages in total = 22 million(2011)

From GoogleDiVA interfaceFrom other web pages

• For registering, archiving and making digital collections available

• Building on DiVA techniques• Interface for different media types (text,

image, sound ...)• Dealing with large files

alvin - new publishing platform

Example: The Silver Bible

Thanks for your attention!Aina Svenssonaina.svensson@ub.uu.seaina.svensson@kb.se