Abstract (EN):
The creation and the dissemination of knowledge are nuclear to the mission of universities. As John
Newman anticipated in his work “The Idea of a University”1] Knowledge is capable of being its own end.
We all know and experiment the influence of the new information and communication technologies (ICT)
in our daily work and in the way we live in society. These technologies are having a tremendous impact
on production and diffusion of knowledge. The open access movement for scholarly communication
bears on the possibilities of Internet technologies, and institutional repositories on the Web are seen as
new ways to support that primary constituent of the universities’ mission.
In this work we will present the institutional repository of the University of Porto (U.PORTO) from its
creation to the present moment, emphasizing its goals and the key factors that influenced most the
adhesion of the academic community to self-archiving, allowing that from November 2007, when the
repository was created, to present days the number of publications registered increased by an order of
magnitude, the University of Porto now being the higher education institution in Portugal that offers
more open access full text publications, over 11.000 documents. To achieve these results, the
connection between the U.PORTO Information System, SIGARRA, to the DSPACE platform, that supports
the University repository was decisive, and we will address its implications as well as the main directions
for future developments.
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica
Contacto:
efernand@reit.up.pt, lmr@reit.up.pt
Notas:
in EUNIS 2010 Congress - IT a Step Forward in Higher Education, Book of Abstracts, Warsaw, 23-25 June 2010
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