Institutional Repository saber.ula.ve: A testimonial perspective
Y. Briceno, H.Y. Contreras, L. A. Nunez, F. Salager-Meyer, A. Rojas,, R. Torrens

TL;DR
This paper shares a decade of experience in building and operating a successful institutional repository, providing methodological guidelines and analyzing its impact on scientific dissemination.
Contribution
It offers a comprehensive case study and practical guidelines for establishing and maintaining institutional repositories based on extensive experience at Universidad de Los Andes.
Findings
High acceptance and adoption of technological tools
Quantitative results on repository activity
Identification of main obstacles faced
Abstract
In this paper, we describe our decade-long experience of building and operating one of the most active Institutional Repository in the world: www.saber.ula.ve <http://www.saber.ula.ve> (University of the Andes, Merida-Venezuela). In order to share our experience with other institutions, we firstly explain the steps we followed to preserve and disseminate the scientific production of the University of Los Andes' researchers. We then present some recent quantitative results about our repository activities and we outline some methodological guidelines that could be applied in order to replicate similar experiences. These guidelines list the ingredients or building blocks as well as the processes followed for developing and maintaining the services of an Institutional Repository. These include technological infrastructure; institutional policies on preservation, publication and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWeb visibility and informetrics · Information Architecture and Usability · E-Learning and Knowledge Management
