In June 2004, University of San Marcos (UNMSM, Lima, Peru) launched the first portal providing access to electronic theses and dissertations in Peru using the Cybertesis platform. This initiative marked the beginning of open access theses repositories in the country. It was followed by other higher education and research institutions, both public and private. Four years later, the Peruvian Network for Digital Theses was established. It was officially closed in December 2014. In June 2010, Red CLARA launched LA REFERENCIA, a project funded by Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID). Eight regional countries were part of this initiative: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. El Salvador joined it recently. The aim of the project was to design a strategy for and an agreed framework on interoperability and scientific production management for Latin America. As of today, country members have developed national networks, each with its respective national repository portal. Repositories contain three (3) basic types of collections: master’s theses and doctoral dissertations; journal articles; and research projects. Participant institutions in LA REFERFENCIA are SNRD (Argentina), IBICT (Brazil), RRAAE (Ecuador), COLCIENCIAS, MEN, RENATA (Colombia), CONICYT, (Chile), CBUES (El Salvador), CONACYT, CUDI (México), RENARE (Peru), and CENIT, REACCIUN (Venezuela). Two events furthering open access to scientific research have been of key importance in Peru in the last two years; the first being the enacting of statute 30035 and its Regulations, by which the National Repository for Open Access Science and Technology was created. According to this legislation, all projects funded with public money will be openly accessible. The second event was the implementation of ALICIA (http://alicia.concytec.gob.pe), the aforementioned National Repository for Open Access Science and Technology. ALICIA is made up of 33 repositories – 13 of them are theses and dissertation repositories; 20 are institutional ones. ALICIA contains 34,567 registration records: 9,297 of them correspond to master’s theses, and 1,906 to doctoral dissertations (ALICIA has an additional 25,270 professional theses submitted by students after completing their undergraduate studies in order to obtain a professional license granted by the Peruvian state). LA REFERENCIA offers access to 88,599 doctoral dissertations and 202,798 master’s theses. Peruvian repositories for electronic theses and dissertations use DSpace, and have adopted the DRIVE 2.0 norms. Some institutions, like Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) have implemented Altmetrics indicators, showing social network activities connected to contents in theses, dissertations and journal articles.

1. Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Peru: A
Twelve-Year Experience and Its connections to
“LA REFERENCIA”, a Latin American Repository
Libio Huaroto
libio.huaroto@upc.edu.pe
Isabel Recavarren
irrecabarren@concytec.gob.pe
ETD 2015 India
18th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations
“Evolving Genre of ETDs for Knowledge discovery”
4th - 6th November, 2015
New Delhi, India
ETD 2015 India

2. ETD 2015 India
• “La Referencia”: Its background
• Standars and Services
• Laws on Open Access
• About Peru
• Comming actions
Outline

3. Background
ETD 2015 India
2010
• “La Referencia” has its origins in “Proyecto Red Federada
Latinoamericana”, a proposal submitted by RedClara to
Inter American Development Bank. Proposal was
approved in June 2010.
• Agreements among members in order to implement a
pilot for the “Red Federada de Repositorios
Latinoamericanos”.
2011
• Metadata collection processes for all the portals from
participant institutions.
• Executive representatives from member countries signed
the “Promotion and Policies Agreement” in México.
• Information Search Portal.

4. Background
ETD 2015 India
2012
• “Buenos Aires Declaration”, signed in Argentina;
this agreement allows for the sustainability and
management of this Net (Nov 29, 2012).
• Member countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,
Chile, El Salvador, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and
Venezuela.
2013
• Focusing on operating the information searching
service
(Nov 2013).
• Activities centered on technical aspects as well as
connecting regional nodes.

5. ETD 2015 India
(Alberto Cabezas, 2014)

6. ETD 2015 India
Participant Institutions
Ecuador
• Repositorio Digital –Senescyt
México
• Red Mexicana de
Repositorios Institucionales –
REMERI
Perú
• Consejo Nacional de Ciencia ,
Tecnología e Innovación
Tecnológica (CONCYTEC)
Venezuela
Argentina
• Sistema Nacional de
Repositorios Digitales –
SNRD
Brasil
• Portal Brasileiro de Acesso
Aberto à Informação
Científica –oasisbr
Colombia
• Biblioteca Digital
Colombiana –BDCOL
Chile
• Sistema de Información
Científica –SIC

7. ETD 2015 India
• VuFind software
• Developed in Java language; it utilizes Spring framework and data
base engine PosgreSQL
Components
• LRHarvester, harvester for metadata through OAI-PMH protocol
• LRProvider, publication of metadata
• Search web portal, web portal for information searching
Indexation
• SOLR
Technology plataforms

8. ETD 2015 India
ACCESS
•info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
•info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
•info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
•info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
TYPE
•info:eu-repo/semantics/article
•info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
•info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
•info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
•info:eu-repo/semantics/book
•info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
•info:eu-repo/semantics/review
•info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
•info:eu-repo/semantics/lecture
•info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
•info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint
•info:eu-repo/semantics/report
•info:eu-repo/semantics/annotation
•info:eu-repo/semantics/contributionToPeriodical
•info:eu-repo/semantics/patent
•info:eu-repo/semantics/other
LANGUAGUE ISO 639-3
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:language>deu</dc:language>
<dc:language>nld</dc:language>
<dc:language>nld/dut</dc:language>
<dc:language>dut</dc:language>
<dc:language>nl</dc:language>
Metadata Standards

9. http://www.lareferencia.info/vufind/
Characteristics
• Search
• Basic and advance
• Faceted search view
• Multilingual
• Mobile device
• Statistics
• Reports
• Harvesting
ETD 2015 India

10. ETD 2015 India
“La Referencia” portal

11. Harvesting Report Statistics Report
ETD 2015 India

12. Master’s Theses
Source: La Referencia – 10-13-2015
ETD 2015 India

13. Doctoral Dissertations
Source: La Referencia – 10-13-2015
ETD 2015 India

14. Open Access Laws
ETD 2015 India

15. Case: Argentina, México and Perú
ETD 2015 India
• Argentina, Ley 26889, November 13, 2013
• Furthers open access in research publications.
• Institutional digital repositories must be compatible with internationally
adopted interoperational norms.
• Institution in charge: Ministery of Science, Technology and Productive
Innovation.
• México, April 2014.
• Changes in Science and Technology Law, General Law on Education, and
Regulations for the National Council for Science and Technology.
• Peru, Ley 30035, March 13, 2013
• Results of all scientific research funded with public money must be
published in open access media.
• In charge: National Council for Science, Technology and Technology
Innovation–CONCYTEC
• Open Access National Digital Repository for Science, Technology and
Innovation is created.

16. ETD 2015 India
http://repositoriosdigitales.mincyt.gob.ar:8380/dnet-web-generic/Welcome.action

17. ETD 2015 India
Argentina Guidelines
http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/pdfs/Directrices_SNRD_2012.pdf

18. ETD 2015 India
http://alicia.concytec.gob.pe/

19. ETD 2015 India
http://portal.concytec.gob.pe/images/documentos/alicia/directrices_repositorio_13082015.pdf
Peruvian Guidelines

20. ETD 2015 India
México

21. Services on some Repositories
ETD 2015 India
Altmetrics
• Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
• Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas – UPC
(Peru)

22. ETD 2015 India
http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/5654
Plum Analytics

23. ETD 2015 India
https://plu.mx/urosario/g/?artifact_tab=THESIS_DISSERTATION
Plum Analytics

24. ETD 2015 India
http://hdl.handle.net/10757/313712
Altmetric Explorer

25. ETD 2015 India
Collection: Papers (Health Areas) in the Academic Repository
of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas UPC
Feb - May 2015
2012
207
24
5
(LEléspuru y Lhuaroto, May 2015)
n=202

26. About Perú
ETD 2015 India

27. ETD 2015 India
Policy for Open Access:
non existent
Interest in Open Access
Open Access support
Institutional repositories
Law furthering
Open Access
First initiatives:theses and
journals (PDF and HTML)
Law 30035
Cybertesis, DSpace,
OJS, OHS, OMP
Open Repository
Softwares, metadatos,
OAI-PMH
Dissemination, training,
developments, applications
1999-2001
2002-2004
2004-2007
2007-2013
2013
Portal
ALICIA
“ALICIA”, National Repository
“La Referencia”
2014-2015
History ETD in Perú

28. ETD 2015 India
• “ALICIA” as National Repository, managed by CONCYTEC
• Law 30035 promoting Open Access
• Member of “La Referencia” (Latin American Repository)
• 38 participants institutions, 15 of them have ETD
Repository
• Some experiences about Open Data Repositories and
Linked data (VIVO project)
• Metadata standards
• DRIVER and OpenAire
• Altmetrics
• Altmetrics Explorer and Plum Analytics
• ORCID
• EPUB format
• DSpace v. 3.2 and 5.2
• Creaative Commons licenses
About Peruvian ETD Repositories

29. ETD 2015 India
Statistics and report

30. ETD 2015 India
Statistics for “ALICIA”

31. ETD 2015 India
EPUB format
EPUB format
EPUB FORMAT
• 2 Universities
• Univ. Nac Mayor de San Marcos
(UNMSM)
• Univ. Peruana de Ciencias
Aplicadas UPC
• Aspose.Word Express software for
conversion MS Word to EPUB format
• 1500 theses with EPUB format
• Undergraduate and Graduate
(UNMSM and UPC)
• Downloaded statistics EPUB format
• From Jul-Set 2015 1350 aprox.

32. ETD 2015 India

33. ETD 2015 India
• Evaluating impact for Peruvian ETD (citation,
downloads, visibility, altmetrics, others).
• Increasing number of ETD and Institutional
Repositories in ALICIA (30% end 2016)
• Improving policies favoring ETD and IR according to
Law 30035 (Open Access)
• Sharing more experiences about open data and
linked data repositories
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