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A falta de conhecimentos e competências relativas à ciência aberta tem vindo a ser identificada como um dos principais obstáculos à sua adoção generalizada pela comunidade académica e científica. Por isso, a formação e capacitação dos investigadores e outros intervenientes nos processos de investigação é considerada com uma componente chave para o sucesso da ciência aberta. Nesta comunicação, apresenta-se o trabalho desenvolvido pelo projeto FOSTER Plus, uma iniciativa europeia com o objetivo de promover, através de formação e disseminação, o conhecimento e as práticas de Acesso Aberto, Dados Abertos e Ciência Aberta, junto de todos os participantes do Espaço Europeu de Investigação (EEI). Serão destacados três dos principais resultados do projeto. Em primeiro lugar o Open Science Toolkit, que reúne conteúdos de nível básico e intermédio, exemplos práticos de três áreas disciplinares e questionários de avaliação, que permitem obter, de uma forma simples e sucinta, os conhecimentos e competências fundamentais da ciência aberta. Em segundo lugar, o Open Science Training Handbook que é um recurso educacional orientado para o ensino prático, focado na ciência aberta. Reunindo métodos, técnicas e práticas, o manual visa apoiar os formadores a transmitir o conhecimento sobre os princípios da ciência aberta, instruindo-os e inspirando-os a criar ações de formação envolventes e de alta qualidade. E finalmente a rede de formadores FOSTER, criada a partir do Trainers Bootcamp, que acompanha, apoia e incentiva os formadores formados pelo projeto, a realizar ações de formação para a suas comunidades e instituições.

Foram desenvolvidos e disponibilizados 2 (dois) pacotes de customizações do software DSpace, denominadas respectivamente Novo TEDE e o Repositório Padrão, e uma interface de usuário para instalação destes pacotes. As etapas que compõem a instalação requerem conhecimento em TI por parte de quem executa a instalação, o que dificulta e desestimula a implantação de repositórios em suas instituições. O desenvolvimento do instalador do DSpace foi direcionado a sanar as dificuldades enfrentadas na instalação. Estas ações facilitam a criação e atualização tecnológica das fontes locais e permitem que a força de trabalho antes destinada a este processo rotineiro de instalação, configuração e customização do DSpace seja agora direcionada a outras frentes de desenvolvimento.

Nos últimos anos, o acesso aberto ao conhecimento e a transformação no modo de fazer ciência convergiram para o conceito de ciência aberta que se refere a abertura das diferentes etapas dos processos científicos com o relativo acesso aos dados primários das pesquisas disponibilizados online. Neste contexto, o campo das humanidades digitais tornou-se o locus de experimentação voltado aos propósitos de abertura no campo científico. A Ciência da Informação, como campo interdisciplinar, tem recebido parte das demandas por formação humana advindos das novas formas de se produzir cientificamente, na medida em que o campo está relacionado à comunicação do conhecimento e governança dos fluxos informacionais para tornar acessível o conhecimento cultural, científico e tecnológico produzido. A compreensão e adoção da ciência aberta no contexto brasileiro requer reflexão, o planejamento e o desenvolvimento de propostas de formação humana que ampliem a perspectiva dos profissionais da informação em face do atual cenário de mudanças. Nesta perspectiva, este artigo aborda as temáticas ciências abertas e humanidades digitais com foco nos desafios relacionados aos modelos formativos no campo da Ciência da Informação. O estudo centra-se em revisão da literatura sobre os temas em questão e identifica algumas competências requeridas do profissional da informação. Utiliza-se como base as orientações do Projeto Foster. Considera que a formação profissional para Ciência Aberta e humanidades incentiva a criação de novos modelos interpretativos para a compreensão dos aspectos da pesquisa nas suas dimensões culturais, linguísticas, literárias e sociais.

O presente trabalho propõe analisar a dificuldade encontrada em relação ao embargo das teses e dissertações com conteúdo sigiloso, visando identificar uma maneira de sanar a lacuna encontrada no ato normativo brasileiro.

O presente trabalho tem como proposta a adoção de métricas alternativas, também conhecidas como altmetrias, na Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD) para o monitoramento do acesso, propagação e possível uso das teses e dissertações produzidas como resultado dos cursos de pós-graduação stricto sensu, mestrado e doutorado.

PHD UNS is digital library of PhD dissertations defended at University of Novi Sad. A web page for basic and advanced search has been developed in order to improve discoverability of dissertations stored in the digital library. This paper presents customization of PHD UNS web search pages for citizens out of academy. The customization includes extension of available representation styles and implementation of automatic recommendations of PhD dissertations. Representation styles are extended with textual representation specially designed for non-academic citizens and visual representation based on word clouds. Automatic recommendations are based on collaborative approach built on PhD download history, i.e., performed on the basis of what other ‘similar’ users have found useful. The PHD UNS digital library logs information for each dissertation downloading. Besides basic information about downloaded dissertation, those logs also contain information about client machine which requested downloading. Those logs have been used in order to prove our customization really improve non-academic users’ experience.

Inspired by the millions of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) openly available online, we describe a novel use of ETDs as data for text summarization. We use a large corpus of ETDs to evaluate techniques for generating abstractive summaries with deep learning. Using an extensive ETD collection of over 30,000 doctoral dissertations and master’s theses, we examine the quality of state-of-the-art deep learning summarization technologies when applied to an ETD corpus. Deep learning requires a large set of training data to produce satisfactory results. Finding suitable training data is especially difficult due to the widespread use of domain-specific jargon in ETDs, coupled with the wide-ranging breadth of subject matter contained in an ETD corpus. To overcome this significant limitation, we demonstrate the potential of transfer learning on automatic summarization of ETD chapters. We apply several combinations of deep learning models and training data to the ETD chapter summarization task and compare the outputs of the top performers.

A number of countries around the world have embraced the open science agenda. However, in some cases, existing legislative frameworks in most countries typically do not allow much openness of data and science. Botswana is an example of such countries. The absence of legislative framework poses a challenge to librarians, researchers and policy makers with regard to data sharing. This has derailed the country’s development in terms of innovation and creativity. This issue has prompted different stakeholders to come together to work towards changing the current systems and regulatory frameworks in relation to open science and data management.  The Botswana Open Data Open Science (ODOS) national committee was established in 2017 by different stakeholders being public bodies, business communities, information professionals and research communities to develop an open data open science policy that would enable data sharing and openness in science within the country. The purpose of this paper is to share the strategies used to establish inclusive interactions and engagement between stakeholders in facilitating the open data readiness implementation in Botswana. Moreover, the paper will highlight challenges encountered and achievement attained through this collaborative effort.

Faced with the advancement of the fourth industrial revolution whereby users are technology-driven, BIUST library repositioned itself in the financial year 2018/2019 by developing and implementing technology-mediated tools as a means of enhancing service delivery. One of the tools that was developed was an institutional repository (IR) with the intention to store, preserve and disseminate the research output produced by both the university employees and students. Like any other library services, the IR needs to be marketed and promoted for its usage to be maximized. The BIUST library conducts marketing activities to promote and create awareness on both newly acquired services and products and existing ones for full utilization for a better return on investment. This paper, therefore, focuses on the different marketing strategies used by the library to promote the IR, especially the electronic theses and dissertations community for both the internal and external audience and the anticipated impact of these marketing activities.

This paper investigated the status of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) programme development and management at the University of Khartoum (UofK) in Sudan. Explored aspects such as deposit policy, workflow, the theses and dissertations retrospective digitization project progress, metadata and software platform used, dissemination and access mode employed, and copyright issues. The study adopted a qualitative approach involving the case study method. A semi-structured interview was used for the purpose of data collection. Relevant documents and reports pertaining to the ETD programme development at the University were obtained and analyzed, in addition to observation, and investigation of the ETD collection at the University’s institutional repository. The paper revealed the various strengths and weaknesses of the ETD programme at the University such as the availability of the collection via the institutional repository of the University as either abstract or full text, and the lack of coordination among the stakeholders of the programme. Highlighted some of the opportunities and threats of the programme and finally came up with some conclusions and recommendations that will enhance the production and management of ETDs at the University of Khartoum.

Global ETD search platform is a joint effort of 34 regions/ countries throughout of the world under supervision of NDLTD. The study attempts to view the status of repositories, contributions, initiatives and adaptation of open ETDs in different countries of the world in NDLTD’s repository for global uses. It also includes the analysis to the top ten national ETD repositories based on their collection and it also tries to draw a map in relation with United Nation Human Development Index and ETD repositories. There are about 55,72,749 ETDs have been deposited in the NDLTD’s global open repository for global access and utilities. Among the contributed countries, the top ten repository countries are UK, Taiwan, France, Germany, India, Portugal, Japan, Finland, P. R. China and Brasil in regards of the uploaded resources. The rank correlation coefficient have been calculated with respected to ETD rank and global HDI rank among them. The paper also tries to present a continental ETD analysis for present global ETD scenario. The quantitative analysis of the national ETD repositories were all landmark achievement of individual ETD participating countries, as these provided the opportunity for researchers, faculty and students for furthering their existing knowledge and sustainable world.

The British Library and STFC are working together to connect metadata relating to PhD theses to use of research facilities provided by STFC. Through the creation of a graph which connects metadata across EThOS, the UK national e-theses repository, the STFC insitutional repository ePubs and the Diamond Light Source repository, links between the theses, authors and institutions have been made. This pilot work has the potential to be extended to enhance the metadata stored within EThOS which is administered by The British Library. This work presents an exciting possibility for other institutions as this graph will present a method to enable the bi-directional updating of metadata held across different systems.

Universities worldwide are expanding how they showcase electronic theses and dissertations and their authors. One way this is accomplished is video recordings of “3 Minute Thesis” competitions. Saint Petersburg State University goes one step further and documents the full defense of their dissertations on video and makes the recording openly available on the official university site together with full texts and opponents reviews. This is one part of their strategy to provide more transparency with the goal of enhancing the overall quality of dissertations. The second part of this strategy is the Library of Saint Petersburg State University working with ProQuest to disseminate dissertations to a global audience through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) database.

University of Dhaka is the largest and the oldest public university in Bangladesh. The university has more than forty-two thousand students and over two thousand academic staff. The university library1 is the heart of the academic activities on campus serving a big number of students, teachers and researchers. The university library holds about 0.6 million copies of books and about 30 thousand of rare manuscripts, microfilms, microfiche and other records of historical importance. It is the largest library in the country. The library maintains an institutional repository and online archives of digitized contents for the university community and others. The goal of such initiatives is to increase the visibility, use and impact of the university's research publications by offering them to use through the university's own digital archival system. The repository consists of full-text materials produced in the university such as theses, internship reports, journal articles, conference proceedings and research materials produced by all the departments, Institutes, research centers and units of the university. DSpace is used for this repository services.  Since June 2012, the repository has been archiving research articles and most importantly all these research publications are of open access allowing university community to have free access to them. Its unique feature is that academic and researchers can also archive their research and other publications in this repository platform. Since this is an open access platform for the university community who can easily get information and relevant research articles from this platform, it is particularly popular among new and young scholars. Additionally, the university library preserves its own digitized newspapers, manuscripts and rare materials in a recently created archival system. This is the first of its kind initiative which has an outstanding impact on access and use of digitized resources in Bangladesh. This poster provides an overview of Dhaka University Library’s institutional repository and archival services currently available. It will also highlight future plans and programs for better library management and services besides increasing access to archival contents for the university community.

The University of Zambia has had a functional Institutional Repository (IR) since 2012. However, while Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) are routinely deposited into the IR, the ingestion is not timely, with significantly large time gaps existing between ETD submission dates and ETD IR ingestion dates. We propose a multi-faceted approach that is aimed at providing a potentially viable solution to the problems through the use of effective workflows and automatic classification of IR objects. Preliminary results demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach is feasible. It is anticipated that the proposed approach will facilitate the implementation of a National ETD portal for storing up-to-date and consistent metadata records from Higher Education Institutions across Zambia.

An important function of metadata for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) is supporting the discovery of related documents through linking of data values in the fields of metadata records. While benefits of the ETD format allow for full-text searching, metadata is still an important and necessary component of the global ETD infrastructure because it is often not possible to share the full documents in aggregations such as the Global ETD Search for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. The metadata field that has the most potential to assist users in discovery is the subject field used to represent what a resource is about. Over the years there has been much discussion of the value of author-generated keywords versus adding subject terms from controlled vocabularies by information professionals as documents are submitted to the University repository. This research seeks to explore this problem with the help of network analysis method not used for such analyzes before by building and analyzing metadata record graphs for the University of North Texas theses and dissertations. This paper reports on the characteristics of keyword-based and controlled-vocabulary-based metadata record networks and discussions insights that can be gained from this approach to metadata quality analysis. This research seeks to explore this problem with the help of network analysis method not used for such analyzes before by building and analyzing metadata record graphs for the University of North Texas theses and dissertations. This paper reports on the characteristics of keyword-based and controlled-vocabulary-based metadata record networks and discussions insights that can be gained from this approach to metadata quality analysis. This research seeks to explore this problem with the help of network analysis method not used for such analyzes before by building and analyzing metadata record graphs for the University of North Texas theses and dissertations. This paper reports on the characteristics of keyword-based and controlled-vocabulary-based metadata record networks and discussions insights that can be gained from this approach to metadata quality analysis.

The development of open science requires a cultural change in academic institutions, including the acquisition of new knowledge and skills in fields like open access publishing, research data sharing and citizen science. The paper presents results from a survey on PhD training programs related to open science in ten highly ranked and research-intensive French universities. Based on the discussion of the empirical survey results (content, format, discipline, etc.), the paper establishes a list of some recommendations that may be helpful for the assessment of existing programs and for the development and implementation of new programs.

Los programas de tesis digitales en Perú se iniciaron el  2002, Cybertesis fue la primera plataforma adoptada, actualmente DSpace es el software de uso oficial. En Junio de 2013 se publicó la Ley 30035 que obliga a las entidades públicas implementar un repositorio digital de acceso abierto, así mismo, crea el Portal “ALICIA”. En Setiembre de 2016 entró en funcionamiento el Portal “RENATI”, plataforma que difunde las tesis de entidades peruanas de educación superior. Actualmente ALICIA tiene 194 repositorios y 271,000 publicaciones en acceso abierto. Por su parte RENATI tiene 170 repositorios de tesis y 218,397 documentos de acceso abierto y restringido. Las políticas institucionales y normativas de gobierno han promovido un crecimiento acelerado de los repositorios, en especial de las tesis, de igual forma, han generado nuevos servicios en la mejora de la calidad de las tesis.

National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Library was trying to engage two different vendors to cooperate and set up the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to improve international visibilities of students’ ETDs. This Practical Experience aims to share a valuable lesson through tripartite cooperation, and firmly believe other institutions can benefit from our experience to save time and effort spent on the launch of such cooperation.

The information explosion in the form of ETDs poses the challenge of management and extraction of appropriate knowledge for decision making by information practitioners. This study presents a solution to the problem by applying topic mining and prediction modeling to 441 full-text ETDs extracted from the PQDT Global database during 2014-2018 in the field of library science using the RapidMiner platform. This study was divided into three phases. In the first phase, metadata analysis of the ETDs retrieved from the database was performed to identify the association of various entities such as universities, departments, types of degrees, and geographical areas with the ETDs. In the second phase, 8 core topics namelychildren literature; academic library; information retrieval; archival science; user study; digital library; library leadership; and digital communication were determined using latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) and each ETD was then annotated with the modeled topic. Lastly, a prediction model using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) was created to classify the untagged ETDs going to be submitted in the database under the 8 modeled topics ( a to h ).