DIGITUM: Digital Deposit of the University of Murcia

Antonia Angosto, Enrique Mingorance

Murcia, 2012

• DIGITUM's institutional repository built to save, share, and search Murcia University's digital research materials.

• Including an increasing number of conference papers, images, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, preprints, technical reports, theses, working papers, and more.

• It’s a project of the University Library, ATICA and University Publishing Service.

1. DIGITUM

2. DIGITUM – ¿What are its objectives?

• The objective of DIGITUM is to allow free access to scientific and academic production

• Increase visibility of its contents • Guarantee digital files preservation

• It meets scientifica and academic production in digital support (DSpace) by the application of international standards (OAI/PMH, etc.)

• Also European, as OpenAIRE and ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements).

• Guarantee the digital preservation at a medium-long term through PREMIS standard (migration).

3. DIGITUM – Standards

– Any anonimous user with Internet connection– Items deposit made by libraries and newspapers

libraries staff – Research and teaching staff introduce

scientific and academic work through “self-file” (autoarchivo), or using the bridge in PAGINA application, operating from June 2011.

4. DIGITUM – ¿Who is the target group?

• Including a scientific paper in the institutional repository broaden authors profile at an international level

• Impact increase of research. There are analysis showing that articles kept in institutional repositories are more cited.

• Obtaining statistical data about the use of documents (acces origin, visits and downloads etc.)

• Permanent URLs for the author’s documents, always accessible in thar url.

5. DIGITUM – Advantages for the author

6. DIGITUM – Main Services

METADATA– Standardization of types of documents– Standardized metadata assignment– Comprehensive management of bibliographic

data flow – Thematic description and index of digital items– Information recovery through multiple vias

6. DIGITUM – Main Services

• Web dissemination of contents and integration with data collectors

• Contents interoperability• Self-file• Archivo Delegado service, allowing the

submission, in a very simple way, of an article to DIGITUM file service, and library staff is in charge of uploading it in the repository

• Bridge PAGINA/DIGITUM – PAGINA is a tool for researchers which allow them to

deposit its scientific production, CV etc.

6. DIGITUM – Main Services

• STATISTICS– Usage information (Visits and downloads)

• User training (self-file sessions and author’s copyright in open access, tutorials, videos)

• Copyright Information and authors rights

• Retrospective Digitalization

DIGITUM is structured in 7 comunities:– Teaching.– Picture Library.– Research. – Journals and Conferences.– Video Library.– Floridablanca Library.– Institutional.

7. DIGITUM – Content Structure

7. DIGITUM – Content Structure

• Logical structure per communities:

• Comunities: eg. Research• Subcomunities: eg. Departments

• Collections: eg. Name of each department• Subcollections: eg. Articles

- Items: specific file to be introduced

7. DIGITUM – Content Structure

• 7 Comunities• 169 Subcomunities• 1.517 Collections• 16.007 registered items• 16.882 pdf’s• 207 doc’s• Other supports: jpeg, zip• 23.883 indexed documents

Integration in collectors and repositories:• Nationals: European:

– Recolecta. -- Europeana– Hispana. -- OpenAIRE– E-Ciencia .

• Internationals:• Redalyc. • OAIster.• RePEc.• Driver.Internet, Google, Yahoo, etc.

8. DIGITUM – Visibility

9. DIGITUM – Impact and Visibility

2008 2009 2010 2011

Introduced Documents

2.300 3.613 5.700 6.700

Visits 60.000 196.113 501.796 625.861

Downloads 79.873 226.106 609.920 1.504.598

10. DIGITUM – Statistics (http://digitum.um.es/xmlui/es)

DIGITUM guarantees copyright:• Compulsory Licence

• It autorizes non exclusive use of the UMU• It guarantees preservation• UMU will not make any changes on the work

• Optional Licence Creative Commons

11. DIGITUM – Rights

11.1 Author’s Rights – DIGITUM Licence .

- Licence compulsory to be accepted in order to publish in DIGITUM.

– Declaration that work is original and does not break other author rights.

– Author declares he/she is owner of his/her work.– Guarantees UMU the right, non-exclusive, to

distribute the work.

11.2. Author’s Rights - DIGITUM Licence.

– Licences joined to OAI movement (Open Archives Initiative).

– Allow authors to freely deposit their work in Internet, limiting its use, protecting this way their works from improper use.

– 4 main conditions combine in 6 types of licences.

Thank you very much.