Managing Access Rights for the Repositories of U.Porto

• Type: Summary of Presentation in an International Conference
• Date: 2012

Authors

Cristina Ribeiro (Author) Other; Maria Eugénia Matos Fernandes (Author) REIT

Conference proceedings International

Title: Open Services for Open Content: Local In for Global Out

The 7th International Conference on Open Repositories

Edinburgh, Scotland, 9 a 13 de Julho

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): Digital repositories are replacing traditional archives, and their functions largely exceed those of their ancestors. In a higher education institution, where multiple activities take place motivated by its teaching, research, community engagement and cultural missions, repositories may become endowed with a spectrum of functionalities that range from the support for teaching resources, the registry of academic publication, the management of research data, the preservation of heritage materials and the dissemination of timely news. In this paper we are looking at the repository structure of U.Porto from the point of view of access rights and access restrictions. The experience at U.Porto has shown that an institutional repository does require considerable effort in the identification of the materials to be incorporated, and that a substantial part of that effort has to be devoted to the management of the access conditions. We consider a set of case studies from U.Porto documents and analyze the processes required to make them available. The cases cover scientific papers, research data and administrative documents, and are just a sample of the many situations the university is facing in its mission of preserving the institutional memory and making resources available to a large audience in and outside the university.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific