2nd International Conference of Information Processing "TICI 2019" -4th Information Science Workshop

2nd International Conference of Information Processing

TICI 2019

ELINF’s Repositories Network: an Open Access initiative in Cuban Higher Education

The aim of this paper is to describe the main features of the first Cuban Digital Repository network developed by ELINF, the characteristics of each repository, their interoperability and the development of a national harvester system. A descriptive analysis was conducted to characterizes the role of the ELINF project to increase the academic visibility of five Cuban universities through the development of digital repositories in those institutions, as well as their near development until the consolidation of a national network. It also describes tools developed in the framework of the project and lines of work to ensure interoperability between repositories and other platforms. ELINF project has improved the scientific and academic information exchange throw the implementation of institutional repositories to share, preserve and increase the visibility of the information resources produced by the own universities and managed by its libraries, developing the first open access policy in Cuban Higher Education, generating and improving tools for information management, training a group of specialist to support the maintenance and interoperability of platforms. At this moment five Digital Repositories are operating, four of them with international visibility and indexed by Google Scholar and international directories. These platforms have allowed universities to share their scientific outputs with the national and international community in an Open Access environment. DarkAIV (a tool for automatic metadata extraction) was developed to facilitate the document’s load to DSpace.

The aim of this paper is to describe the main features of the first Cuban Digital Repository network developed by ELINF, the characteristics of each repository, their interoperability and the development of a national harvester system. A descriptive analysis was conducted to characterizes the role of the ELINF project to increase the academic visibility of five Cuban universities through the development of digital repositories in those institutions, as well as their near development until the consolidation of a national network. It also describes tools developed in the framework of the project and lines of work to ensure interoperability between repositories and other platforms. ELINF project has improved the scientific and academic information exchange throw the implementation of institutional repositories to share, preserve and increase the visibility of the information resources produced by the own universities and managed by its libraries, developing the first open access policy in Cuban Higher Education, generating and improving tools for information management, training a group of specialist to support the maintenance and interoperability of platforms. At this moment five Digital Repositories are operating, four of them with international visibility and indexed by Google Scholar and international directories. These platforms have allowed universities to share their scientific outputs with the national and international community in an Open Access environment. DarkAIV (a tool for automatic metadata extraction) was developed to facilitate the document’s load to DSpace.

About The Speaker

Manuel Osvaldo Machado Rivero

Manuel Osvaldo Machado Rivero

UCLV Flag of Cuba

Profesor de Ciencias de la Información

Practical Info
English (US)
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30 minutes
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Authors
Dr. Grizly Meneses Placeres
Dr. grizly meneses placeres
Manuel Osvaldo Machado Rivero
dr. amed abel leiva mederos
msc. nirma maría acosta nuñez
Keywords
cuban universities
digital collection
digital repositories
elinf
open access
open science
repositories network
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