DigiTool and the Institutional Repository of the University of Lisbon

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DigiTool and the Institutional Repository of the
University of Lisbon
Cristina Domingues cadomingues_at_fc.ul.pt

• Eugénia Santos
• eug.santos_at_fl.ul.pt

Marta Nogueira mnogueira_at_reitoria.ul.pt
http//www.ul.pt/
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• Brief report about the setting up and
  development of the Repository of UL
• Priority to institutional repository (RIUL)
• In this stage more How to do it and how it
  functions than functionalities improvements to
  report

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University of Lisbon(Portugal)

• 9 Faculties
• 9 Institutes
• 3 Labs
• 1 Museological complex
• (Science, Medicine and Natural
• History museums)
• Research centers
• 18 Libraries
• Despacho normativo n.º 36/2008.
• (DR, 2.ª série, N.º 148
• (1 de Agosto de 2008)

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Context

• Digitool was acquired in 2003 to support the
  Universitys digital library
• Emergence of institutional repositories created
  new needs
• DigiTool allows to support institutional
  repositories

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Context

• The Lisbon University Institutional Repository
  is part of a more comprehensive project
• The repositório.UL Project

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• repositório.UL project
• The project was assigned to a Working Group,
  appointed by the Rector of this University in
  July 2007
• The Groups priority is the creation and
  development of the Lisbon University (UL)
  Institucional Repository (RIUL)

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• IR in UL primary goals
• To collect, store and disseminate, via web,
  scientific information in digital format carried
  out at the University
• To improve scholary communication
• To allow local self-archiving
• To provide acess to grey literature
• To ensure effective and long term preservation
• To promote the institution (UL)

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Implementation process

• Few experiences with DigiTool to build
  institutional repositories in portuguese
  universities

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• UL comunity needs establishment of the mission
  and goals of the Institutional Repository
• Instalation and configuration of Digitool
• Working Group training in Digitool
• Distribution of tasks within the Working Group

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• Upload of thesis and dissertations developed in
  UL
• Project promotion making the RIUL public
• to university library staff
• to organic units of the University
• Authors participation invitations to these
  academic communities to provide content to the
  repository

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working on it
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• General repository collections

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Institutional repository

• Whats the better structure for the Lisbon
  University IR?
• Chosen structure
• Collection ? Faculty (unit) ? Objects

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Institutional Repository
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Access rights

• Teachers and researchers are encouraged to
  deposit their works in RIUL granting permission
  for dissemination without access rights
  restrictions
• Restrictions are applied according to the
  author's expressed wish

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Self - archiving

• Implementation
• Distributed model ? each faculty upload and
  manage their own scholarly output

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Maintenance

• Schedule maintenance twice a day
• Manual actualizations Silo maintenance
  procedures

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Digitool2 examples related withusability and
stability
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• Maximum number of characters 2000
• ? abstract field (Meditor)

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• Maximum number of characters 2000
• ? abstract field (Web interface)

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• ? abstract field (Meditor)

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• Complex objects
• ? Web interface

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Future developments

• Preservation plan
• Implementation of self-archiving and development
  of the use of ingest module
• ? enlargement of RIUL
• Definition of a self-archiving policy
• Articulation with Metalib
• Training seminars about the use of the IR and
  self-archiving
• Creation of a promotional plan

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Future developments

• Participation in national projects
• ? Meta repositório (national portal of
  scientific literature)
• ? DeGóis curricula platform

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• Repositório Institucional Universidade Lisboa
• (RIUL)
• http//digitool01.sibul.ul.pt

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Thank you ? Gracias ? Obrigada
Cristina Domingues cadomingues_at_fc.ul.pt

• Eugénia Santos
• eug.santos_at_fl.ul.pt

Marta Nogueira mnogueira_at_reitoria.ul.pt
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