Visibility and internationalization USARB Through Institutional Repository [Resursă electronică] : Expoziţie / Bibl. Şt. a Univ. de Stat "Alecu Russo" din Bălţi ; realizare: Igor Afatin, Lina Mihaluţa, Tatiana Prian. - Bălţi, 2018.

1. MODERN INFORMATION SERVICES FOR IMPROVEMENT STUDY QUALITY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MISISQ: INVOLVEMENT • CREATIVITY • SUSTAINABILITY
MOLDOVAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM
Igor AFATIN, Lina MIHALUŢA, Tatiana PRIAN,
Scientific Library Alecu Russo State University
VISIBILITY AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
USARB
THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
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”The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space
where you can communicate through sharing information.”
Tim Berners-Lee
Information and
communication
technologies
changing the company's
vision of information
transformation of the
established
way of thinking and
scientific communication
Creating and
disseminating
knowledge in society
research and
teaching activities
electronic scientific
and educational
materials
INSTITUTIONAL
REPOSITORY
new
storage
methods
new access
ways
Open AccessCompetitiveness
of the institution
Visibility of
research results

3. RI ORA USARB (Open Research Archive)
(http://dspace.usarb.md:8080/jspui/)
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Year 2012 – DSpace 1.8
Year 2018 – DSpace 6.2
Figure1 Evolution of ORA USARB
2012:
• Studying, installing and testing open source
platforms to create repositories;
• developing the concept (determining the structure:
communities, collections and sub-collections);
• preparation of the package of normative documents
on open access publication
2013:
• Presenting the demo version of the new library
service IR ORA USARB (Open Research Archive)
MISISQ – Modern Information Services for Improvement Study Quality
Specific objectives: create institutional e-repositories for study and research output
of Moldova universities.
Achieved (Working Group WP2 - e-Repositories): Development of technical
infrastructure and content management of the repository.

4. Legal aspect
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Figure 2 Regulatory documents accessing
2015:
• Open Access Policy of Alecu Russo Balti State University –
http://bit.ly/2zrTefq
• Regulatory framework of Institutional Repository ORA (Open
Research Archive) USARB – http://bit.ly/2xNP9Qx
• Statement on publications’ archiving in Institutional Repository
– http://bit.ly/2OQHgkX
Registration:
Policy
• Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies
ROARMAP - http://bit.ly/2xP9Ag7
Repository
• OpenDOAR - http://bit.ly/2NF1RvG
• Registry of Open Access Repositories - http://bit.ly/2N0cjZO

5. Legal aspect
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coordinator and executor in
the creation of IR
in terms of content
• Receiving documents / information
from authors for the purpose of
placing them in IR;
• examining the legality of distributing
open access documents;
• the immediate realization of archiving
of documents in the repository;
• advising authors on self-archiving
publications
from a technological point of view
• ensuring the operation of the
software;
• technical support;
• preservation of electronic publications.
placement of the scientific
product in open access
Scientific Library
RESPONSIBILITIES

6. Technological aspect
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DSpace1.8 CentOS 7 Ant Maven Tomcat 7 Other Authors
metadata
language (ISO
639-1:2002)
logo ORA
USARB
logo MISISQ
Logo USARB
(with link)
brief
presentation of
the repository
Breadcrumbs
Apache
SOLR
Google
Analytics DSpace 6.2
OS
optimizations
Content and
Metadata
General
Settings
Statistics
and
Metrics

7. Structure
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C
Annals
Articles
Bibliography
Biobibliography
Catologues
Conferences, Colloquia
Information Literacy
Dictionaries
Ghuides.Tutorials
Monographs
Multimedia
Projects. Reports
Didactical and methodical publications
Doctoral thesis abstract
Doctoral desertation
ORA USARB
UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTION
„ION CREANGĂ” TEACHER'S TRAINING
COLLEGE
FACULTY OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF FILOLOGY
FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL
SCIENCES,PSYCHOLOGY AND ARTS
FACULTY OF EXACT, ECONOMIC AND
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
BĂLŢI BRANCH OF THE SCIENCE ACADEMY
OF MOLDOVA
HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT OF USARB
JOURNALS
DOCTORAL STUDIES
Figure 3 ORA USARB Structure
10 communities
structured
in collections according to
type of document

8. Development
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80
277 365 300
817
592
2013 year 2014 year 2015 year 2016 year 2017 year 2018 to present
Figure 4 Records per year ORA USARB
Working group WP.2
meetings.
E-repositories.
Trainings.
Creating the
workgroup .
Trainings
The National
Marathon of
Publications
Archiving in IR

9. Conţinut
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6
2266
39 25 5 76 9 7 8 21 202 158 114 12 7
Figure 5 Content of ORA USARB by type of document
University Scientific Library
Institutional Collection
„Ion Creangă” Teacher's Training College
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
Faculty of Filology
Faculty of Educational Sciences,Psychology…
Faculty of Exact, Economic and Environmental…
Bălţi Branch of the Science Academy of Moldova
Journals
Doctoral studies
84333
14
235
556
449
610
82
114
19
Figure 6 Content of ORA USARB in communities
The ORA USARB collection currently contains :
• 2 955 Items :
 articles – 2 266,
 publications – 487,
 multimedia – 202
• 1 057 Author
• more than 9 000 Subject
Indexing sources: Periodical publications edited by USARB;
conference materials, thematic collections; bibliographies,
bio-bibliographies and monographs; doctoral dissertations
and doctoral dissertations (USARB employees); various
scientific, didactic, regulatory and informative materials, or
any other genre at the request of the author and / or the
recommendation of the management of the structural
subdivision.

10. Impact
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Table 1 ORA USARB - Actions Performed
Bitstream Views 206 637
Item Views 131 572
Searches Performed 85 881
browse 65 185
browse_by_item 59 575
browse_mini 8 479
browse_by_value 8 020
Collection Views 5 532
Community Views 2 346
Figure 7 Overview of the audience
Figure 8 Sessions - geographical coverage

11. Impact
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Table 2 Top page
Page Title Page
Views
% Page
Views
1 ORA USARB: Search 4 170 16,93 %
2 ORA USARB: Browsing DSpace 3 289 13,36 %
3 ORA USARB: Home 2 762 11,22 %
4 ORA USARB: BIBLIOTECA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ 546 2,22 %
5 ORA USARB: FACULTATEA DE ŞTIINŢE ALE
EDUCAŢIEI, PSIHOLOGIE ŞI ARTE
450 1,83 %
6 ORA USARB: Articole 313 1,27 %
7 ORA USARB FACULTATEA DE DREPT ŞI ŞTIINŢE
SOCIALE
301 1,22 %
Figure 9 Demographiccriteria
Figure10 Traffic channels
Figure 11 Social traffic

12. Promotion
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Figura 12 ORA USARB tutorials Figura 13 Presentation of ORA USARB tutorials on the Library site
International Open Education Week
International Open Access Week
Month of Licentiate /Master`s/Doctoral studies
Chairs Day

13. Promotion
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Capitalization of Instituțional ORA USARB
(http://bit.ly/2NJ7bya)
• all teachers must provide edited publications to the Library to make research results
visible and increase rating;
• increasing the number of exposed works in open access;
• all teachers should place their courses;
• publishing of articles written by students and masters at conferences too.
Open Access to Information in USARB: Educational and Scientific Contributions
(http://bit.ly/2OT6QWb )
• Institutional Repository ORA USARB - one of the main open access services of the
scientific library used for research

14. Conclusion
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the perception that
articles can be
accessed by a larger
number of users;
increasing the visibility
of the authors and
hence the possibility
of a higher number of
citations;
long-term centralized
storage of full-text
works in electronic
format;
creating a viable and
accessible system for
recording and
controlling the
number of
publications on
Faculties,
Departments and
employees.
Online publishing

15. Conclusion
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one of the main sources
and means of
communication and
scientific information
model of capitalization
of the scientific
research activity and
innovation of academic
staff
speed of traditional
methods of scientific
communication
accessibility of
research results in the
network
• significantly speeding up
data sharing,
• creating the ability to
check and reproduce the
results, analyze the data
underlying the various
studies.
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