The document summarizes strategies used by Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) to improve the visibility of its institutional repository and digital theses. UPC implemented an academic repository in 2013 using metadata standards and identifiers. It pursued strategies like interoperability with other repositories, altmetrics tracking, social media dissemination, file optimization, and obtaining rankings. As a result, downloads increased yearly and the repository rose in the Webometric ranking. UPC also began assigning DOIs to theses to improve traceability of citations.

1. ETD 2017 Symposium – Exploring Global Connections
Improving the visibility of
institutional repository,
digital theses and
research data: the case of
the Peruvian University
for Applied Sciences
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Miguel Saravia López de Castilla, Liliana
Eléspuru Briceño, Libio Huaroto, André
Maguiña Ballón, Agnes Dibós Muñoz,
Said Castro
August 7-9, 2017

2. Outline
• About Peruvian Network Repositories
• UPC University
• Visibility
• Strategies
• Metrics
• Conclusion
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas ETD2017

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China
México
Colombia
2013
2013 2016
UPC Academic
Repository
ALICIA portal
Law 30035
RENATI portal
Theses and
dissertations
• Open access Peruvian
digital portal of science
and technology.
• Managed by CONCYTEC.
• 77 605 documents in
open access.
• Peruvian digital portal of
theses and dissertations in
open and restricted access.
• Managed by Sunedu.
• 48 065 record:
- Bachelor's degree = 38 061
- Master's degree= 8 375
- Doctoral degree = 1 668
Alicia and Renati
http://alicia.concytec.gob.pe
http://renati.sunedu.gob.pe/

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About UPC
UPC is the first Peruvian university
institutionally accredited by WASC
4 campuses
Graduate studies
17 master's
degree programs
60 000 students
(undergraduate and
graduate programs)
Undergraduate studies
13 faculties
54 academic programs

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UPC Academic Repository
• Implemented in 2013.
Features
• Standards: DC, ETDMS, OAI-PMH, DRIVER.
• Identifiers: ORCID, DOI, HANDLE.
• Contents: theses, articles, books, conferences,
research data, final works of courses, interviews,
photographs and videos.
• Quantity: 6065 records.
http://repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe/Politics
• Open access for all theses (exception for proposed
patent or publication of scientific articles).
• Style sheet for theses.
• Incorporation of ORCID and DOI in theses.
• Use of Creative Commons Licenses.
• Authorization formats.

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Visibility of UPC Academic Repository: objectives
Objetives
• Disseminate through the Internet the intellectual production
generated by the university community UPC.
• Positioning the UPC Academic Repository and the academic
journals portal in social networks.
• Evaluate the impact of the use of the contents in the social
networks and in specialized tools of positioning in the Web.
The visibility includes the following aspects:
• Position in the Webometrics Ranking Repositories.
• Increase in the number of file downloads.
• Metadata interoperability.
• Interactions in social networks.

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Visibility of UPC Academic Repository: strategies
Strategies Description
Strategy 1
Metadata standards
Dublin Core, ETDMS, OAI-PMH, OpenAire, DRIVER.
Thesauri
OECD, MESH, UNESCO, among others
Strategy 2
Interoperability
ALICIA, NDTLD, OATD, WorldCat, CORE, among others.
Memberships
COAR, NDLTD, ORCID
Strategy 3
Altmetrics and dissemination in social media
Altmetric Explorer and dissemination in commercial and academic social
media.
Strategy 4
File optimization
Technique to make it easier for search engines to quickly locate PDF files.
Strategy 5
Identifiers
ORCID, Google Scholar Profile, DOI.
Strategy 6 Datasets collection
Strategy 7
Ranking of repositories
Webometrics Ranking of Repositories

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Strategy 1- Metadata standards
Metadata standards
Dublin Core
ETD-MS
OAI-PMH
Geospatial Metadata Standards And
Guidelines
OpenAire (data repositories)
ISO 16363 Trusted Digital Repositories
Namespace
http://openrepository.com/current-research
http://openrepository.com/media-terms
http://openrepository.com/thesis

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Strategy 2 - Metadata Interoperability
WorldCat
(OCLC)
NDLTD
BASE
(Bielefeld Academic
Search Engine)
OATD
CORE
(Connecting
REpositories)
Google
ScholarLA
REFERENCIA
(Latin America)
ALICIA
(Peru)
RENATI
(Peru)
UPC Academic
Repository

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Institutions
COAR
Confederation of Open Access
Repositories
NDLTD
Networked Digital Library of
Theses and Dissertations
ORCID
Open Researcher and
Contributor ID
Institutional subscription for UPC
Strategy 2 - Membership

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Strategy 3 - Altmetrics
• Implemented in January 2015.
• Altmetric score: Donut.
• Free version (institutional
repository).
• Identifiers to collect information
(DOI, Handle, URL, PMID).
• Standard NISO RP-25-201x-1, 2
and 3.

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Strategy 3 – Social networks

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Postcron
• Subscription to this tool (up to 5
social networks).
• Easiest way to schedule post on
facebook, Twiter, Google+, others.
• Easy publishing content (imagen
and videos).
DLVR.IT
• Free tool (up to 3 social networks).
• it does not integrate in a easy way
for images
Strategy 3 – Social networks

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Strategy 4 - Optimization files
Type of files:
• PDF
• PPTX
• Word
• EPUB

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Strategy 5 – ORCID

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Strategy 5 – Google Scholar Profile

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Strategy 5 – Identifier DOI to theses
• UPC University subscribed to CrossRef, specifically
for articles (Ene 2015).
• A project to assign DOI to theses was carried out
(March - June 2017).
• In July the project was approved. UPC University is
the first institution in Peru to assign DOI to theses.
• Use web form for validate metadata and DOI in
CrossRef.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/tesis/621738
Theses
Type of
document
HandlePrefix
http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/978-612-318-092-8
Books
ISBNPrefix
Other documents
http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/621650
Prefix Handle
Strategy 5 – DOI to thesis, book and other types

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https://www.crossref.org/webDeposit/
Strategy 5 – Web deposit form DOI to theses

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Thesis
Book
Strategy 5 –DOI to theses

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Strategy 6 – Datasets collection
• National legislation was approved for
"Open Government Data Strategy for Peru
2017-2021" (DS-N°016-2017-PCM).
UPC University:
• Mainly contents Software Engineering
Programme:
• Open source software
(Web application, tablet interface
and tv interface).
• Installation and configuration guide.
• Script to create a databases, triggers
(MySQL,SQL Database)
Interface Tablet
Interface TV
http://datosabiertos.gob.pe

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Repositories
Size (10%)
Number of pages from Google, Live
Search, Yahoo, Search and Exalead.
Include all rich files and subdomains.
Social (10%)
Best way for promoting documents is use
social networks. Count mentions in these
tool: Academia, CiteUlike, CrossRef,
Facebook, Figshare, Google+, others).
Scholar Google (30%)
Total number of entries in Google
Scholar.
Visibilidad (50%)
Total number of refering subnets
from the link info providers majestic
& Ahrefs tools.
http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/node/29
Strategy 7 - Ranking Web of Repositories

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Peruvian rank for
UPC Academic Repository
Strategy 7 - Ranking Web of Repositories
World rank for UPC Academic Repository

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Metrics – Donwload PDF files
Ene 2014 – Jul 2017
136737
128488
187565
272484
330173
309996
235614
63465
87684
106565
101359
132522
125913 114241
128306
185320
192577
177809
113191
0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
400000
450000
500000
Ene Feb Mar Abr May Jun Jul Ago Set Oct Nov Dic
2017
2016
2015
2014
Linear (2017)

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Metrics – Download EPUB files
Ene 2015 – Jul 2017
209
155
161
231
249
196
374
124 140
77
21
115 126
551 579
304
518
438
705
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
Ene Feb Mar Abr May Jun Jul Ago Set Oct Nov Dic
2017
2016
2015
Linear (2017)

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Metrics – Access and download datasets
30
18
28
38
28
21
39
23
15
3
10
2 2
10
24
20
13
6
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Nov-16 Dec-16 Jan-17 Feb-17 Mar-17 Apr-17 May-17 Jun-17 Jul-17
Accesos
Descarga archivos
Nov 2016 – Jul 2017

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Conclusion
Strategies have allowed:
• Improve position for UPC Academic Repository in
Webometric Ranking for Repositories.
• Improve social network positioning for contents of
UPC Academic Repository.
• Measure the impact social network activity through
Altmetrics.
• DOI as a way of traceability of citation in digital theses.