A repository is a centralized space where digital information is stored, organized, maintained and disseminated, usually computer files, which may contain scientific works, data sets or software. The repositories have their beginnings in the 90s, in the area of physics and mathematics, where academics took advantage of the network to share their research with other colleagues. This process was valuable because it accelerated the scientific cycle of publication and review of results.[1].
They are information systems that preserve and organize scientific and academic materials to support research and learning, while guaranteeing access to information.[2] In recent years, cultural heritage repositories have also been created that contribute to the organization, preservation and dissemination of collections of cultural objects kept by museums and other memory institutions.
Digital repositories can be institutional or thematic and must be compatible with interoperability standards adopted internationally and guarantee free access to their documents and data through the Internet or other information technologies that are appropriate for the purposes, facilitating the necessary conditions for the protection of the rights of the institution and the author on academic, scientific-technological and cultural production.[3].
Etymology
The origin of the Spanish word «repository» derives from the Latin «repositorium», which means closet or cupboard. This term is included in the Dictionary of the Royal Academy where it is defined as the "place where something is kept."[4].
General characteristics
Contenido
Los datos almacenados en un repositorio pueden distribuirse a través de una red informática, como Internet, o de un medio físico, como un disco compacto. Pueden ser de acceso público o estar protegidos y necesitar de una autenticación previa. Los repositorios más conocidos son los de carácter académico e institucional. Los repositorios suelen contar con sistemas de respaldo y mantenimiento preventivo y correctivo, lo que hace que la información se pueda recuperar en el caso de que la máquina quede inutilizable o ciertos formatos queden obsoletos con el paso del tiempo. A esto se lo conoce como preservación digital,[5] y requiere un exhaustivo trabajo de control de calidad e integridad para realizarse correctamente.[6].
Information Repository
Introduction
A repository is a centralized space where digital information is stored, organized, maintained and disseminated, usually computer files, which may contain scientific works, data sets or software. The repositories have their beginnings in the 90s, in the area of physics and mathematics, where academics took advantage of the network to share their research with other colleagues. This process was valuable because it accelerated the scientific cycle of publication and review of results.[1].
They are information systems that preserve and organize scientific and academic materials to support research and learning, while guaranteeing access to information.[2] In recent years, cultural heritage repositories have also been created that contribute to the organization, preservation and dissemination of collections of cultural objects kept by museums and other memory institutions.
Digital repositories can be institutional or thematic and must be compatible with interoperability standards adopted internationally and guarantee free access to their documents and data through the Internet or other information technologies that are appropriate for the purposes, facilitating the necessary conditions for the protection of the rights of the institution and the author on academic, scientific-technological and cultural production.[3].
Etymology
The origin of the Spanish word «repository» derives from the Latin «repositorium», which means closet or cupboard. This term is included in the Dictionary of the Royal Academy where it is defined as the "place where something is kept."[4].
General characteristics
Contenido
Los datos almacenados en un repositorio pueden distribuirse a través de una red informática, como Internet, o de un medio físico, como un disco compacto. Pueden ser de acceso público o estar protegidos y necesitar de una autenticación previa. Los repositorios más conocidos son los de carácter académico e institucional. Los repositorios suelen contar con sistemas de respaldo y mantenimiento preventivo y correctivo, lo que hace que la información se pueda recuperar en el caso de que la máquina quede inutilizable o ciertos formatos queden obsoletos con el paso del tiempo. A esto se lo conoce como preservación digital,[5] y requiere un exhaustivo trabajo de control de calidad e integridad para realizarse correctamente.[6].
Depositar no debe confundirse con publicar. El depósito en los repositorios es una manera de comunicar públicamente los trabajos de los investigadores, aumentando su difusión: los autores ponen disponibles en acceso abierto una versión de los artículos que han publicado en revistas, tradicionales o de acceso abierto. Para ello, los sistemas de repositorios suelen integrarse e interoperar con otros sistemas y aplicaciones web.[7][8] Asimismo, los repositorios cumplen un rol importante en la formación universitaria[9] y también en la preservación del patrimonio cultural.
Algunas instituciones promueven el uso de sus repositorios como un servicio adicional para el investigador. Otras instituciones poseen mandatos propios que obligan a los autores o investigadores a depositar sus publicaciones (o determinados tipos, como por ej. tesis doctorales) en el repositorio institucional, con fines de visibilidad, impacto y preservación.[10] En algunos países, como por ejemplo Argentina y México "Repositorio Nacional de Acceso Abierto a Recursos de Información Académica, Científica, Tecnológica y de Innovación (México)"), se han promulgado leyes de acceso abierto que promueven la implementación y uso de los repositorios de instituciones sustentadas con fondos públicos.[11][12].
Software
The choice of software is a crucial issue for implementing a digital object repository. There are different technology models depending on their origin and form of acquisition: free or commercial, proprietary or open source software, software service model. In any case, they must meet the following requirements:
Some of the best-known software products for institutional repositories are:
Legal framework
Works included in a repository must comply with current laws regarding the rights that creators have in their work. Two types of rights are considered: moral and patrimonial. Moral rights are permanent, inalienable, inexpropriatable and do not prescribe. Economic or copyright rights are economic, transferable and have a limited duration in time. Patrimonial rights are generally exploitative. This right is usually transferred to third parties through the signing of a contract. The total or partial transfer of this right can be of four types: reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation. Academic institutions have to articulate the legal conditions of the repositories, contemplating the rights of exploitation, deposit and access to content. These aspects may be affected by the transfers of exploitation rights that researchers have accepted in editorial contracts.
Many authors transfer all rights to the publishers that publish their works. This means that it loses ownership of exploitation until the conclusion of the signed contract (exceptionally the author could use it for educational purposes or for personal use). The consequences of this exclusive assignment are multiple and considerably affect the publication, distribution and uses of the works. There are alternative contractual options to exclusive assignment, such as partial assignment (in which some rights are established for the author and others - such as publication or distribution - for the editor) or non-assignment (in which the author retains the copyright, but grants the editor permission, through license, to publish the work).
Among the different alternatives to the total and exclusive transfer of the exploitation rights of a work are the following:
Types of repositories
The repositories are divided into two large groups:
They can also be classified according to their type of content. Although some repositories host content of various types, in general terms they can be classified as:.
Scientific repositories
European Union
PubMed Central: This is a thematic repository with enormous success, which has led to the creation of a network called PMI International with the aim of establishing open archives in collaboration with local institutions in each country. He is specialized in Medicine. It has become a reference source for researchers around the world.
DSpace@Cambridge: This is a service of the University of Cambridge managed by the library and IT service. It offers articles, theses and technical reports in different formats. Its objective is to preserve and disseminate digital materials related to the University.
International Repositories
Social Science Research Network (SSRN): this is an online repository of academic research within the Sciences
Social and Humanities. Allows quick and efficient sharing of
works between authors and readers. Its objective is to disseminate research in Social Sciences.
AQUATIC COMMONS: This is a digital repository that covers natural marine environments, brackish water and fresh water estuaries. Includes all aspects of the
science, technology, administration and conservation of these environments, their
organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.
REDIB: is an Ibero-American network for innovation and scientific knowledge. Adds scientific and academic documents in digital format from the Ibero-American field. It facilitates access and dissemination of scientific production in the languages of its scope. Its recipients are the scientific community, scientific policy managers and society in general. It grouped more than 2000 magazines in 2018.[19].
Latin America
This network[20] aims to provide a tool for easy access to full-text electronic publications in different Latin American repositories. It allows simultaneous searches through a single interface, in 75 universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay.
LA Reference[21] is a Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of scientific publications produced in higher education and research institutions in Latin America. It promotes free and open access to the full text, constituting a Latin American network of open access repositories, especially giving access to results financed with public funds.
Argentina
Argentina has a National System of Digital Repositories")[22] created by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation "Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Argentina)") together with the Interinstitutional Council of Science and Technology (CICyT) through its representatives on the Advisory Council of the Electronic Library of Science and Technology. It includes 43 institutional repositories.
The Institutional Digital Repository of the University of Buenos Aires includes the intellectual and academic production of the university in all its disciplines. The repository makes it possible to gather, register, disseminate, preserve and provide access to the knowledge generated at the university, compatible with national and international standards, to guarantee its integration with similar portals. Its objective is to provide a specialized search service for scientific and academic information available on any topic, facilitating the work of teaching, research and study. It uses the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), which allows content to be offered and shared with other repositories. The contents of the RDI-UBA are under a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivadas 2.5 Argentina.[23].
FILO:Digital[24] is the institutional repository of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA "Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires)"), it is a project developed and sustained by the Undersecretary of Libraries of the Faculty within the policies of open access to information and knowledge, within the framework of national law No. 26,899 on the creation of digital repositories. This repository has as objective to guarantee the preservation and dissemination of the intellectual production of teachers, students, researchers and scholarship holders. The digitized works include undergraduate and graduate theses (specializations, master's degrees and doctorates) and magazine articles, among others.
Advantages of participating in FILO:Digital:.
FILO:Digital provides the community with the possibility of giving visibility and dissemination to the publications generated, on the one hand, and collaborating in the construction of its academic and institutional memory, on the other. FILO:Digital is attached to the National System of Digital Repositories"). All its collections are available in the UBA digital repository and is harvested by Google academic.
It was developed entirely by members of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and put into operation in December 2015.[25].
FAUBA Digital is the scientific and academic institutional repository of the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA "Faculty of Agronomy (University of Buenos Aires)"), it is a project developed and sustained by the Central Library of the Faculty that is framed in the philosophy of open access, established by national law No. 26,899[26] on the creation of digital repositories.
Colombia
The University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano has its Expeditio Institutional Repository, where it consolidates academic, scientific and heritage information in open access, it is available at the link: http://expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co/ the repositories of the National University of Colombia (UNAL Repository) and the Industrial University of Santander (RIUIS) are also accessible. Both offer academic and scientific information produced in their field: undergraduate and postgraduate theses and original research. The information is free and is obtained in PDF format.
The IDU Institutional Repository offers technical-scientific information on the infrastructure works of the mobility system and public space, carried out by the IDU Urban Development Institute, in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Ecuador
The digital repository of the Army Polytechnic School contains information and digital content aimed at strengthening scientific research and professional development for both teachers and students. It has digital databases with a large content of information and documents produced at the same university, such as thesis projects or publications by teachers, to serve as a reference for future projects and articles. The ESPE repository was created in 2011.
Spain
Access is the digital repository of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) based on DSpace technology. It was created in October 2009 by the University Library to collect open scientific production generated by the ULPGC community: teachers, researchers, students and administration and service staff. Acceda[42] is an OAI-PMH platform that follows the Open AIRE, Hispana "Hispana (digital library)") and Driver specifications and Open Access policies. It also includes the BUStreaming application that converts videos and audios to Flash and offers them in streaming and has a self-publishing system.[43] In 2014, it exceeded 8,000 documents[44] including theses, undergraduate and postgraduate works, magazines and teaching materials for research.
Digital.CSIC is a multidisciplinary scientific repository of digital documents that collects the results of the research work carried out in each and every one of the centers and institutes of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and other institutions, in open access. Digital.CSIC was created in 2006 as a result of the signing of the Berlin Declaration by the Presidency of the CSIC through which the CSIC committed to disseminating the research of its scientific community in open access.[45].
idUS is the Research Repository of the University of Seville. Launched in February 2015 by the Library of the University of Seville, its main objective is to gather, preserve and disseminate the documents resulting from the scientific activity of the University, making the documents accessible to any user. It uses the free DSpace software, complies with the OAI-PMH protocol and follows the Open AIRE, Hispana "Hispana (OAI collector)") and Driver specifications and open access policies. idUS is multidisciplinary in nature and, in terms of documentary typology, it mainly includes magazine articles, conference presentations, doctoral theses, final degree dissertations (TFG), master's dissertations (TFM) and book chapters. US researchers have an author profile that offers access to their publications, data and contact information, other author profiles, statistics, etc. idUS already has more than 80,000 documents and has exceeded 9,000,000 downloads in 2020.[46].
It is a platform where quality Spanish scientific journals are found. It has a public part and a private part where you can review and edit scientific articles and publications.[47].
Recolecta is a platform created and managed by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) that allows free access to all scientific production deposited in Spanish repositories.[48].
Riunet[49] is the Institutional Repository of the Universitat Politècnica de València, managed by the Library, whose objective is to offer Internet access to the scientific, academic and corporate production of the university community with the aim of increasing its visibility and making it accessible and preserving. RiuNet responds to the University's commitment within the framework of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, with its adherence to the Berlin Declaration and its institutional Policy on Open Access.[50].
Mexico
The National Repository of open access to academic, scientific, technological and innovation information resources "National Repository of Open Access to Academic, Scientific, Technological and Innovation Information Resources (Mexico)") is a centralized digital platform whose coordination and operation models follow international standards, which seeks to maintain, preserve and disseminate academic, scientific, technological and innovation information derived from the research, educational and academic products of the different scientific and technological research institutions in Mexico. The National Repository of Mexico aggregates information from institutional repositories and other repositories interested in interoperating with it through the OAI-PMH metadata harvesting protocol to guarantee their visibility.
It is operated by the National Council of Science and Technology "National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico)") (CONACYT) of Mexico. Among the institutional repositories that are interoperating, those of all public research centers stand out and later more will be added through calls to develop institutional repositories of open access to scientific, technological and innovation information.[51].
The Institutional Repository of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (RI-UNAM) is an open access digital platform that gathers, integrates, manages and disseminates the metadata or contents already digitized from the repositories of entities and dependencies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, produced or safeguarded by the same university, complying with national and international interoperability standards and regulations. It depends on the General Directorate of University Repositories (DGRU).
The RI-UNAM has more than 2.7 million documents in open access for consultation via the Internet. Gradually, the RI-UNAM integrates digital resources into its portal through semantic, syntactic and regulatory interoperability analysis of the UNAM repositories in accordance with the Guidelines for the Integration of University Repositories in the UNAM Institutional Repository, published by Gaceta UNAM on October 19, 2020.[52].
Venezuela
Some Venezuelan universities have institutional repositories, such as the Universidad Simón Bolívar "Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela)") (USB), available since 2011 through Esopo, the Universidad de los Andes "Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela)") (Saber ULA), the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Saber UCV) and the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) (UDOSpace).
Cultural heritage repositories
Digital repositories of cultural heritage use techniques similar to those of other types of repositories (scientific, institutional) to solve questions for the search and retrieval of information and the objects it describes. Users can formulate queries using different modalities such as free text, similarity matching or metadata.
In cultural heritage repositories, digital or digitized heritage is integrated in the form of digital objects. Their cultural value lies in the fact that they represent, reflect or describe human knowledge and cultural manifestations, which is why they are considered a legacy that must be transmitted to future generations.
These types of repositories integrate digital heritage content (digital objects) that can be produced by converting materials originally in analog format, or those that are "born digital": objects such as documents, works of art, books, films, paintings, newspapers, sound files, maps, manuscripts and other files.
Digital or digitized objects are representations of tangible cultural heritage, that is, objects that have physical substance and can be preserved and restored by some type of intervention, as well as intangible cultural heritage, which is the set of elements without physical substance, or forms of behavior that come from a traditional, popular or indigenous culture, and to which exceptional value is granted.
Cultural heritage repositories can be classified into two main types:
supplier repositories.
aggregator repositories.
The provider repositories can be thematic or house collections from institutions such as museums, libraries, archives, documentation centers, photo libraries, and sound archives. Aggregator repositories harvest (collect) the metadata and/or digital objects available in the provider repositories.
Repositories of cultural heritage in the world.
There are various types of aggregator repositories that can be national or supranational. Examples of supranational aggregator repositories are Europeana and Digital Pasifik.[53].
Examples of national aggregator repositories are the United States Public Digital Library, Mexicana "Mexicana (Repositorio)"), Towards a National Collection of the United Kingdom,[54] Japan Search,[55] Hispana "Hispana (collector OAI)"), DigitalNZ") | Ā-Tihi o Aotearoa, Trove, Digital Repository of Ireland, Cultura Italia.
[5] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján; Texier, José (noviembre de 2012). «Las actividades y el planeamiento de la preservación en un repositorio institucional». BIREDIAL - Conferencia Internacional Acceso Abierto, Comunicación Científica y Preservación Digital. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/26045
[6] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Oviedo, Néstor Fabián; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján (10 de 2013). «Control de integridad y calidad en repositorios DSpace». III Conferencia de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales de América Latina (BIREDIAL) y VIII Simposio Internacional de Bibliotecas Digitales (SIBD) (Costa Rica, 2013): 14. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/30524
[7] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján; Terruzzi, Franco Agustín (2013). Infraestructura interoperable alrededor del repositorio institucional SEDICI. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/30515
[8] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Marmonti, Emiliano Horacio; Vila, Maria Marta; Sobrado, Ariel; Villarreal, Gonzalo (2006). «Tecnologías para propagar los contenidos de una Biblioteca Digital». IV Simposio Internacional de Bibliotecas Digitales: 18.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/5562
[9] ↑ Texier, José; De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Oviedo, Néstor; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján; Lira, Ariel Jorge (10 de 2012). «El uso de repositorios y su importancia para la educación en Ingeniería». World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF 2012) "Educación en Ingeniería para el Desarrollo Sostenible y la inclusión social": 10. ISBN 978-987-1896-03-5. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/22943
[13] ↑ Digital Commons. «Open Access Institutional Repository Software. Bepress». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/
[14] ↑ OCLC. «CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://www.contentdm.org/
[15] ↑ «Eprints - Digital Repository Software». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://www.eprints.org/
[17] ↑ Open Data Commons. «Licenses Open Data Commons». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://opendatacommons.org/
[18] ↑ Soares Guimarães, M.ª C. (1 de noviembre de 2012). «Los repositorios temáticos en la estrategia de la iniciativa Open Access». NUTRICION HOSPITALARIA (2): 44-50. ISSN 0212-1611. doi:10.3305/nh.2012.27.sup2.6271. Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: https://doi.org/10.3305/nh.2012.27.sup2.6271
[20] ↑ Universidad de Chile. Sistema de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas. «Red de repositorios latinoamericanos». Consultado el 23 de octubre de 2013.: http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl
[38] ↑ «Repositorio Institucional de Acceso Abierto (RIAA) de la Facultad de Tecnología y Ciencias Aplicadas de la Universidad Nacional de Catamarca (Argentina)».: https://roar.eprints.org/17076/
[39] ↑ «Captura: repositorio académico de la Universidad de Chile». Consultado el 23 de octubre de 2013.: http://captura.uchile.cl
[53] ↑ «Home». digitalpasifik.org (en inglés). Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: http://digitalpasifik.org/
[54] ↑ «Towards a National Collection | Collections United». www.nationalcollection.org.uk (en inglés). Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/
[55] ↑ «Japan Search». Japan Search. Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: https://jpsearch.go.jp/
Depositar no debe confundirse con publicar. El depósito en los repositorios es una manera de comunicar públicamente los trabajos de los investigadores, aumentando su difusión: los autores ponen disponibles en acceso abierto una versión de los artículos que han publicado en revistas, tradicionales o de acceso abierto. Para ello, los sistemas de repositorios suelen integrarse e interoperar con otros sistemas y aplicaciones web.[7][8] Asimismo, los repositorios cumplen un rol importante en la formación universitaria[9] y también en la preservación del patrimonio cultural.
Algunas instituciones promueven el uso de sus repositorios como un servicio adicional para el investigador. Otras instituciones poseen mandatos propios que obligan a los autores o investigadores a depositar sus publicaciones (o determinados tipos, como por ej. tesis doctorales) en el repositorio institucional, con fines de visibilidad, impacto y preservación.[10] En algunos países, como por ejemplo Argentina y México "Repositorio Nacional de Acceso Abierto a Recursos de Información Académica, Científica, Tecnológica y de Innovación (México)"), se han promulgado leyes de acceso abierto que promueven la implementación y uso de los repositorios de instituciones sustentadas con fondos públicos.[11][12].
Software
The choice of software is a crucial issue for implementing a digital object repository. There are different technology models depending on their origin and form of acquisition: free or commercial, proprietary or open source software, software service model. In any case, they must meet the following requirements:
Some of the best-known software products for institutional repositories are:
Legal framework
Works included in a repository must comply with current laws regarding the rights that creators have in their work. Two types of rights are considered: moral and patrimonial. Moral rights are permanent, inalienable, inexpropriatable and do not prescribe. Economic or copyright rights are economic, transferable and have a limited duration in time. Patrimonial rights are generally exploitative. This right is usually transferred to third parties through the signing of a contract. The total or partial transfer of this right can be of four types: reproduction, distribution, public communication and transformation. Academic institutions have to articulate the legal conditions of the repositories, contemplating the rights of exploitation, deposit and access to content. These aspects may be affected by the transfers of exploitation rights that researchers have accepted in editorial contracts.
Many authors transfer all rights to the publishers that publish their works. This means that it loses ownership of exploitation until the conclusion of the signed contract (exceptionally the author could use it for educational purposes or for personal use). The consequences of this exclusive assignment are multiple and considerably affect the publication, distribution and uses of the works. There are alternative contractual options to exclusive assignment, such as partial assignment (in which some rights are established for the author and others - such as publication or distribution - for the editor) or non-assignment (in which the author retains the copyright, but grants the editor permission, through license, to publish the work).
Among the different alternatives to the total and exclusive transfer of the exploitation rights of a work are the following:
Types of repositories
The repositories are divided into two large groups:
They can also be classified according to their type of content. Although some repositories host content of various types, in general terms they can be classified as:.
Scientific repositories
European Union
PubMed Central: This is a thematic repository with enormous success, which has led to the creation of a network called PMI International with the aim of establishing open archives in collaboration with local institutions in each country. He is specialized in Medicine. It has become a reference source for researchers around the world.
DSpace@Cambridge: This is a service of the University of Cambridge managed by the library and IT service. It offers articles, theses and technical reports in different formats. Its objective is to preserve and disseminate digital materials related to the University.
International Repositories
Social Science Research Network (SSRN): this is an online repository of academic research within the Sciences
Social and Humanities. Allows quick and efficient sharing of
works between authors and readers. Its objective is to disseminate research in Social Sciences.
AQUATIC COMMONS: This is a digital repository that covers natural marine environments, brackish water and fresh water estuaries. Includes all aspects of the
science, technology, administration and conservation of these environments, their
organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.
REDIB: is an Ibero-American network for innovation and scientific knowledge. Adds scientific and academic documents in digital format from the Ibero-American field. It facilitates access and dissemination of scientific production in the languages of its scope. Its recipients are the scientific community, scientific policy managers and society in general. It grouped more than 2000 magazines in 2018.[19].
Latin America
This network[20] aims to provide a tool for easy access to full-text electronic publications in different Latin American repositories. It allows simultaneous searches through a single interface, in 75 universities in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay.
LA Reference[21] is a Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of scientific publications produced in higher education and research institutions in Latin America. It promotes free and open access to the full text, constituting a Latin American network of open access repositories, especially giving access to results financed with public funds.
Argentina
Argentina has a National System of Digital Repositories")[22] created by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation "Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Argentina)") together with the Interinstitutional Council of Science and Technology (CICyT) through its representatives on the Advisory Council of the Electronic Library of Science and Technology. It includes 43 institutional repositories.
The Institutional Digital Repository of the University of Buenos Aires includes the intellectual and academic production of the university in all its disciplines. The repository makes it possible to gather, register, disseminate, preserve and provide access to the knowledge generated at the university, compatible with national and international standards, to guarantee its integration with similar portals. Its objective is to provide a specialized search service for scientific and academic information available on any topic, facilitating the work of teaching, research and study. It uses the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), which allows content to be offered and shared with other repositories. The contents of the RDI-UBA are under a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivadas 2.5 Argentina.[23].
FILO:Digital[24] is the institutional repository of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA "Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires)"), it is a project developed and sustained by the Undersecretary of Libraries of the Faculty within the policies of open access to information and knowledge, within the framework of national law No. 26,899 on the creation of digital repositories. This repository has as objective to guarantee the preservation and dissemination of the intellectual production of teachers, students, researchers and scholarship holders. The digitized works include undergraduate and graduate theses (specializations, master's degrees and doctorates) and magazine articles, among others.
Advantages of participating in FILO:Digital:.
FILO:Digital provides the community with the possibility of giving visibility and dissemination to the publications generated, on the one hand, and collaborating in the construction of its academic and institutional memory, on the other. FILO:Digital is attached to the National System of Digital Repositories"). All its collections are available in the UBA digital repository and is harvested by Google academic.
It was developed entirely by members of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters and put into operation in December 2015.[25].
FAUBA Digital is the scientific and academic institutional repository of the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA "Faculty of Agronomy (University of Buenos Aires)"), it is a project developed and sustained by the Central Library of the Faculty that is framed in the philosophy of open access, established by national law No. 26,899[26] on the creation of digital repositories.
Colombia
The University of Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano has its Expeditio Institutional Repository, where it consolidates academic, scientific and heritage information in open access, it is available at the link: http://expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co/ the repositories of the National University of Colombia (UNAL Repository) and the Industrial University of Santander (RIUIS) are also accessible. Both offer academic and scientific information produced in their field: undergraduate and postgraduate theses and original research. The information is free and is obtained in PDF format.
The IDU Institutional Repository offers technical-scientific information on the infrastructure works of the mobility system and public space, carried out by the IDU Urban Development Institute, in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.
Ecuador
The digital repository of the Army Polytechnic School contains information and digital content aimed at strengthening scientific research and professional development for both teachers and students. It has digital databases with a large content of information and documents produced at the same university, such as thesis projects or publications by teachers, to serve as a reference for future projects and articles. The ESPE repository was created in 2011.
Spain
Access is the digital repository of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) based on DSpace technology. It was created in October 2009 by the University Library to collect open scientific production generated by the ULPGC community: teachers, researchers, students and administration and service staff. Acceda[42] is an OAI-PMH platform that follows the Open AIRE, Hispana "Hispana (digital library)") and Driver specifications and Open Access policies. It also includes the BUStreaming application that converts videos and audios to Flash and offers them in streaming and has a self-publishing system.[43] In 2014, it exceeded 8,000 documents[44] including theses, undergraduate and postgraduate works, magazines and teaching materials for research.
Digital.CSIC is a multidisciplinary scientific repository of digital documents that collects the results of the research work carried out in each and every one of the centers and institutes of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and other institutions, in open access. Digital.CSIC was created in 2006 as a result of the signing of the Berlin Declaration by the Presidency of the CSIC through which the CSIC committed to disseminating the research of its scientific community in open access.[45].
idUS is the Research Repository of the University of Seville. Launched in February 2015 by the Library of the University of Seville, its main objective is to gather, preserve and disseminate the documents resulting from the scientific activity of the University, making the documents accessible to any user. It uses the free DSpace software, complies with the OAI-PMH protocol and follows the Open AIRE, Hispana "Hispana (OAI collector)") and Driver specifications and open access policies. idUS is multidisciplinary in nature and, in terms of documentary typology, it mainly includes magazine articles, conference presentations, doctoral theses, final degree dissertations (TFG), master's dissertations (TFM) and book chapters. US researchers have an author profile that offers access to their publications, data and contact information, other author profiles, statistics, etc. idUS already has more than 80,000 documents and has exceeded 9,000,000 downloads in 2020.[46].
It is a platform where quality Spanish scientific journals are found. It has a public part and a private part where you can review and edit scientific articles and publications.[47].
Recolecta is a platform created and managed by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) that allows free access to all scientific production deposited in Spanish repositories.[48].
Riunet[49] is the Institutional Repository of the Universitat Politècnica de València, managed by the Library, whose objective is to offer Internet access to the scientific, academic and corporate production of the university community with the aim of increasing its visibility and making it accessible and preserving. RiuNet responds to the University's commitment within the framework of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, with its adherence to the Berlin Declaration and its institutional Policy on Open Access.[50].
Mexico
The National Repository of open access to academic, scientific, technological and innovation information resources "National Repository of Open Access to Academic, Scientific, Technological and Innovation Information Resources (Mexico)") is a centralized digital platform whose coordination and operation models follow international standards, which seeks to maintain, preserve and disseminate academic, scientific, technological and innovation information derived from the research, educational and academic products of the different scientific and technological research institutions in Mexico. The National Repository of Mexico aggregates information from institutional repositories and other repositories interested in interoperating with it through the OAI-PMH metadata harvesting protocol to guarantee their visibility.
It is operated by the National Council of Science and Technology "National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico)") (CONACYT) of Mexico. Among the institutional repositories that are interoperating, those of all public research centers stand out and later more will be added through calls to develop institutional repositories of open access to scientific, technological and innovation information.[51].
The Institutional Repository of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (RI-UNAM) is an open access digital platform that gathers, integrates, manages and disseminates the metadata or contents already digitized from the repositories of entities and dependencies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, produced or safeguarded by the same university, complying with national and international interoperability standards and regulations. It depends on the General Directorate of University Repositories (DGRU).
The RI-UNAM has more than 2.7 million documents in open access for consultation via the Internet. Gradually, the RI-UNAM integrates digital resources into its portal through semantic, syntactic and regulatory interoperability analysis of the UNAM repositories in accordance with the Guidelines for the Integration of University Repositories in the UNAM Institutional Repository, published by Gaceta UNAM on October 19, 2020.[52].
Venezuela
Some Venezuelan universities have institutional repositories, such as the Universidad Simón Bolívar "Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela)") (USB), available since 2011 through Esopo, the Universidad de los Andes "Universidad de los Andes (Venezuela)") (Saber ULA), the Universidad Central de Venezuela (Saber UCV) and the Universidad de Oriente (UDO) (UDOSpace).
Cultural heritage repositories
Digital repositories of cultural heritage use techniques similar to those of other types of repositories (scientific, institutional) to solve questions for the search and retrieval of information and the objects it describes. Users can formulate queries using different modalities such as free text, similarity matching or metadata.
In cultural heritage repositories, digital or digitized heritage is integrated in the form of digital objects. Their cultural value lies in the fact that they represent, reflect or describe human knowledge and cultural manifestations, which is why they are considered a legacy that must be transmitted to future generations.
These types of repositories integrate digital heritage content (digital objects) that can be produced by converting materials originally in analog format, or those that are "born digital": objects such as documents, works of art, books, films, paintings, newspapers, sound files, maps, manuscripts and other files.
Digital or digitized objects are representations of tangible cultural heritage, that is, objects that have physical substance and can be preserved and restored by some type of intervention, as well as intangible cultural heritage, which is the set of elements without physical substance, or forms of behavior that come from a traditional, popular or indigenous culture, and to which exceptional value is granted.
Cultural heritage repositories can be classified into two main types:
supplier repositories.
aggregator repositories.
The provider repositories can be thematic or house collections from institutions such as museums, libraries, archives, documentation centers, photo libraries, and sound archives. Aggregator repositories harvest (collect) the metadata and/or digital objects available in the provider repositories.
Repositories of cultural heritage in the world.
There are various types of aggregator repositories that can be national or supranational. Examples of supranational aggregator repositories are Europeana and Digital Pasifik.[53].
Examples of national aggregator repositories are the United States Public Digital Library, Mexicana "Mexicana (Repositorio)"), Towards a National Collection of the United Kingdom,[54] Japan Search,[55] Hispana "Hispana (collector OAI)"), DigitalNZ") | Ā-Tihi o Aotearoa, Trove, Digital Repository of Ireland, Cultura Italia.
[5] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján; Texier, José (noviembre de 2012). «Las actividades y el planeamiento de la preservación en un repositorio institucional». BIREDIAL - Conferencia Internacional Acceso Abierto, Comunicación Científica y Preservación Digital. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/26045
[6] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Oviedo, Néstor Fabián; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján (10 de 2013). «Control de integridad y calidad en repositorios DSpace». III Conferencia de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales de América Latina (BIREDIAL) y VIII Simposio Internacional de Bibliotecas Digitales (SIBD) (Costa Rica, 2013): 14. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/30524
[7] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Lira, Ariel Jorge; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján; Terruzzi, Franco Agustín (2013). Infraestructura interoperable alrededor del repositorio institucional SEDICI. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/30515
[8] ↑ De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Marmonti, Emiliano Horacio; Vila, Maria Marta; Sobrado, Ariel; Villarreal, Gonzalo (2006). «Tecnologías para propagar los contenidos de una Biblioteca Digital». IV Simposio Internacional de Bibliotecas Digitales: 18.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/5562
[9] ↑ Texier, José; De Giusti, Marisa Raquel; Oviedo, Néstor; Villarreal, Gonzalo Luján; Lira, Ariel Jorge (10 de 2012). «El uso de repositorios y su importancia para la educación en Ingeniería». World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF 2012) "Educación en Ingeniería para el Desarrollo Sostenible y la inclusión social": 10. ISBN 978-987-1896-03-5. Consultado el 7 de mayo de 2014.: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/22943
[13] ↑ Digital Commons. «Open Access Institutional Repository Software. Bepress». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/
[14] ↑ OCLC. «CONTENTdm Digital Collection Management Software». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://www.contentdm.org/
[15] ↑ «Eprints - Digital Repository Software». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://www.eprints.org/
[17] ↑ Open Data Commons. «Licenses Open Data Commons». Consultado el 24 de marzo de 2014.: http://opendatacommons.org/
[18] ↑ Soares Guimarães, M.ª C. (1 de noviembre de 2012). «Los repositorios temáticos en la estrategia de la iniciativa Open Access». NUTRICION HOSPITALARIA (2): 44-50. ISSN 0212-1611. doi:10.3305/nh.2012.27.sup2.6271. Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: https://doi.org/10.3305/nh.2012.27.sup2.6271
[20] ↑ Universidad de Chile. Sistema de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas. «Red de repositorios latinoamericanos». Consultado el 23 de octubre de 2013.: http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl
[38] ↑ «Repositorio Institucional de Acceso Abierto (RIAA) de la Facultad de Tecnología y Ciencias Aplicadas de la Universidad Nacional de Catamarca (Argentina)».: https://roar.eprints.org/17076/
[39] ↑ «Captura: repositorio académico de la Universidad de Chile». Consultado el 23 de octubre de 2013.: http://captura.uchile.cl
[53] ↑ «Home». digitalpasifik.org (en inglés). Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: http://digitalpasifik.org/
[54] ↑ «Towards a National Collection | Collections United». www.nationalcollection.org.uk (en inglés). Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/
[55] ↑ «Japan Search». Japan Search. Consultado el 9 de octubre de 2021.: https://jpsearch.go.jp/
This digital collection of works produced at the Faculty aims to guarantee the preservation of the intellectual production of students and teachers of the Faculty, and to provide its academic community with the possibility of internationally disseminating the publications generated by it.
Fauba Digital is a member of the National System of Digital Repositories. Its open access collections are available in the UBA digital repository and is compiled by Google Academic and SIDALC, Alliance of Agricultural Information Services.
SeDiCI is the Institutional repository of the National University of La Plata. The repository was created in 2003 to house, preserve and disseminate, through its website, the intellectual, scientific and artistic creations and productions of the various actors of the university (students, professors and researchers). Since SeDICI adheres to open access policies, its entire collection is freely available, with the vast majority of full-text documents. The repository includes: books, electronic books, articles, theses, dissertations, artistic works, magazines, reviews and legal documents, among others.
REDIUNLu[27] is the Open Access Institutional Digital Repository of the National University of Luján whose function is to store, preserve and disseminate the scientific and academic production of the institution. In addition, it makes known and makes visible the knowledge of UNLu based on the philosophy of Open Access.
The José María Rosa Institutional Digital Repository is the institutional repository of the National University of Lanús. It was created on December 21, 2011[28] to promote and disseminate the scientific and academic production of its researchers, professors, scholarship holders and students, establishing open access as a support and incentive policy. The repository is made up of different collections: final undergraduate and graduate works, articles, books, parts of books, conference presentations, working documents, among others. The Directorate of Library and Documentary Information Services is the unit responsible for organizing and providing documentary treatment to these collections.
It is the Open Access Institutional Digital Repository of the National University of Luján whose function is to store, preserve and disseminate the scientific and academic production of the institution. In addition, it makes known and makes visible the knowledge of UNLu based on the philosophy of Open Access.
CONICET Digital is the open access Institutional Repository of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). It gathers, records, disseminates, preserves and gives public access to the scientific-technological production carried out by researchers, scholarship holders and other CONICET personnel,[29] who self-archive their scientific production. It is attached to the National System of Digital Repositories (SNRD).
Suquía is the institutional and thematic repository of the Museum of Anthropology-IDACOR of the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (National University of Córdoba) "Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (National University of Córdoba)"). It is developed and supported by the Digital Archeology Program of the IDACOR-CONICET Museum of Anthropology. Its objective is to guarantee the preservation and dissemination of archaeological and ethnographic collections, documentation related to them, documentary collections of researchers and institutional documents kept in the Heritage Reserve and Archive of the Museum of Anthropology of Córdoba. So does the intellectual production of teachers, students, researchers, research support staff and scholarship holders. Digitized works include journal articles, databases, conference presentations, reference collections, and outreach activities, among others. It has been in operation since February 2016.[30].
INTA Digital[31] was created to provide free, open and public access to scientific-technological production, agricultural dissemination and extension, and all forms of knowledge transfer and experiences carried out by researchers, professionals, technicians, and INTA agents. INTA digital includes all types of electronic documents: magazine articles, books, book chapters, theses, technical reports, presentations, images, working documents, software and applications, among others. These contents are classified into communities related to the organizational structure of INTA based on four large functional areas: Research Centers and Institutes, Regional Centers and Experimental Stations, National Coordinations, and Assistant National Directorates. Each of them is divided into sub-communities that respond to the scientific-technical information producing units of the Institution. INTA Digital was created in 2017, the INTA-National Institute of Agricultural Technology is an institution belonging to the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation, and as such, complies with National Law No. 26,899[32] on the creation of repositories.
The SEGEMAR Digital Repository[33][34] of the Argentine Mining Geological Service makes available the geological-mining, territorial and environmental information produced by SEGEMAR. Its objective is to gather, record, disseminate and preserve the organization's production in compliance with Law No. 26,899[32] on the creation of open access institutional digital repositories of the Argentine Republic and with current regulations on access to information produced by public organizations (Decree 206/2017 on Access to public information and Law No. 27275 on the Right of access to public information). [35] It has the particularity of including special and historical collections in addition to current production:.
This institutional repository brings together the scientific-academic production of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Sciences of the National University of Catamarca (UNCA) and allows other units or agencies to request the deposit of their publications and productions linked in one way or another to the UNCA. It includes the following types of documents: magazine articles, event documents, books, theses and final undergraduate and postgraduate works, open resources and documentation of an institutional, informative, regulatory and administrative nature of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Sciences. Complies with National Law No. 26,899 on the creation of repositories.[32][36].
The Institutional Open Access Repository of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Sciences of the National University of Catamarca has been registered in international directories of open access digital repositories. These directories allow the identification, navigation and search of repositories, based on a series of characteristics, such as location, software or the type of material contained. [37][38].
It is the repository of the University of Chile that offers open access to the publications of academics and researchers.[39].
The ONEMI Digital Repository is a citizen information service that preserves, disseminates and gives visibility to the scientific-technical information generated within the Institution and through the above, seeks to position the preventive culture and raise citizen awareness on issues related to Civil Protection.[40].
Sinapsis is the Repository of the National Museum of Medicine, it is a service that offers all the Museum's digitized museological material to the public.[41].
RiuNet is designed for the University Community to archive its personal or institutional production in collections. These are made up of different types of documents, such as learning objects (Polimedia, Virtual Laboratories and teaching articles), doctoral theses, magazine articles, maps, academic works, creative works, heritage collection, teaching material, multimedia, institutional production, electronic journals and conference proceedings.
This digital collection of works produced at the Faculty aims to guarantee the preservation of the intellectual production of students and teachers of the Faculty, and to provide its academic community with the possibility of internationally disseminating the publications generated by it.
Fauba Digital is a member of the National System of Digital Repositories. Its open access collections are available in the UBA digital repository and is compiled by Google Academic and SIDALC, Alliance of Agricultural Information Services.
SeDiCI is the Institutional repository of the National University of La Plata. The repository was created in 2003 to house, preserve and disseminate, through its website, the intellectual, scientific and artistic creations and productions of the various actors of the university (students, professors and researchers). Since SeDICI adheres to open access policies, its entire collection is freely available, with the vast majority of full-text documents. The repository includes: books, electronic books, articles, theses, dissertations, artistic works, magazines, reviews and legal documents, among others.
REDIUNLu[27] is the Open Access Institutional Digital Repository of the National University of Luján whose function is to store, preserve and disseminate the scientific and academic production of the institution. In addition, it makes known and makes visible the knowledge of UNLu based on the philosophy of Open Access.
The José María Rosa Institutional Digital Repository is the institutional repository of the National University of Lanús. It was created on December 21, 2011[28] to promote and disseminate the scientific and academic production of its researchers, professors, scholarship holders and students, establishing open access as a support and incentive policy. The repository is made up of different collections: final undergraduate and graduate works, articles, books, parts of books, conference presentations, working documents, among others. The Directorate of Library and Documentary Information Services is the unit responsible for organizing and providing documentary treatment to these collections.
It is the Open Access Institutional Digital Repository of the National University of Luján whose function is to store, preserve and disseminate the scientific and academic production of the institution. In addition, it makes known and makes visible the knowledge of UNLu based on the philosophy of Open Access.
CONICET Digital is the open access Institutional Repository of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). It gathers, records, disseminates, preserves and gives public access to the scientific-technological production carried out by researchers, scholarship holders and other CONICET personnel,[29] who self-archive their scientific production. It is attached to the National System of Digital Repositories (SNRD).
Suquía is the institutional and thematic repository of the Museum of Anthropology-IDACOR of the Institute of Anthropology of Córdoba of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (National University of Córdoba) "Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities (National University of Córdoba)"). It is developed and supported by the Digital Archeology Program of the IDACOR-CONICET Museum of Anthropology. Its objective is to guarantee the preservation and dissemination of archaeological and ethnographic collections, documentation related to them, documentary collections of researchers and institutional documents kept in the Heritage Reserve and Archive of the Museum of Anthropology of Córdoba. So does the intellectual production of teachers, students, researchers, research support staff and scholarship holders. Digitized works include journal articles, databases, conference presentations, reference collections, and outreach activities, among others. It has been in operation since February 2016.[30].
INTA Digital[31] was created to provide free, open and public access to scientific-technological production, agricultural dissemination and extension, and all forms of knowledge transfer and experiences carried out by researchers, professionals, technicians, and INTA agents. INTA digital includes all types of electronic documents: magazine articles, books, book chapters, theses, technical reports, presentations, images, working documents, software and applications, among others. These contents are classified into communities related to the organizational structure of INTA based on four large functional areas: Research Centers and Institutes, Regional Centers and Experimental Stations, National Coordinations, and Assistant National Directorates. Each of them is divided into sub-communities that respond to the scientific-technical information producing units of the Institution. INTA Digital was created in 2017, the INTA-National Institute of Agricultural Technology is an institution belonging to the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation, and as such, complies with National Law No. 26,899[32] on the creation of repositories.
The SEGEMAR Digital Repository[33][34] of the Argentine Mining Geological Service makes available the geological-mining, territorial and environmental information produced by SEGEMAR. Its objective is to gather, record, disseminate and preserve the organization's production in compliance with Law No. 26,899[32] on the creation of open access institutional digital repositories of the Argentine Republic and with current regulations on access to information produced by public organizations (Decree 206/2017 on Access to public information and Law No. 27275 on the Right of access to public information). [35] It has the particularity of including special and historical collections in addition to current production:.
This institutional repository brings together the scientific-academic production of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Sciences of the National University of Catamarca (UNCA) and allows other units or agencies to request the deposit of their publications and productions linked in one way or another to the UNCA. It includes the following types of documents: magazine articles, event documents, books, theses and final undergraduate and postgraduate works, open resources and documentation of an institutional, informative, regulatory and administrative nature of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Sciences. Complies with National Law No. 26,899 on the creation of repositories.[32][36].
The Institutional Open Access Repository of the Faculty of Technology and Applied Sciences of the National University of Catamarca has been registered in international directories of open access digital repositories. These directories allow the identification, navigation and search of repositories, based on a series of characteristics, such as location, software or the type of material contained. [37][38].
It is the repository of the University of Chile that offers open access to the publications of academics and researchers.[39].
The ONEMI Digital Repository is a citizen information service that preserves, disseminates and gives visibility to the scientific-technical information generated within the Institution and through the above, seeks to position the preventive culture and raise citizen awareness on issues related to Civil Protection.[40].
Sinapsis is the Repository of the National Museum of Medicine, it is a service that offers all the Museum's digitized museological material to the public.[41].
RiuNet is designed for the University Community to archive its personal or institutional production in collections. These are made up of different types of documents, such as learning objects (Polimedia, Virtual Laboratories and teaching articles), doctoral theses, magazine articles, maps, academic works, creative works, heritage collection, teaching material, multimedia, institutional production, electronic journals and conference proceedings.