Research support services at UPC libraries Roser Gmez

Research support services at UPC libraries Roser Gómez roser. gomez@upc. edu Marta López marta. lopez-vivancos@upc. edu Anna Rovira anna. rovira@upc. edu Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Libraries The 26 th Annual Conference Québec City, Québec, Canada May 29 – June 2, 2005

Contents • • UPC and the University Library Research at UPC: 2010 horizon UPC libraries and research Library research services • Accessing scientific information • Extending “open access” at UPC • • Raising the awareness of the academic community TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server Fènix. Doc Research repository • New library services • UPC observatory of scientific publications • UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

UPC locations MANRESA TERRASSA SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS BARCELONA IGUALADA VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ CASTELLDEFELS

UPC Main indicators Period of reference Students 33. 460 2003 -04 Doctoral students 2. 697 2003 -04 Academic staff 2. 531 2003 -04 Research staff 73 2003 -04 348 2003 -04 1. 280 2003 -04 Academic staff in education Administrative and service staff 267. 187, 000 € budget 2005 Degrees and diplomas 46 2003 -04 Ph. D programmes 47 2003 -04 5. 133 2003 -04 Registered students of continuing education

UPC libraries School of Telecommunications Engineering of Barcelona , University Campus of Manresa School of Civil Engineering of Barcelona, Barcelona School of Computer Science School of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa, College of Industrial Engineering of Terrassa School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona College of Optics and Optometry of Terrassa Technical School of Castelldefels Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics College of Agricultural Engineering of Barcelona

UPC libraries School of Architecture of the Vallès College of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona Technical College of Barcelona Faculty of Nautical Studies of Barcelona School of Architecture of Barcelona School of Engineering of Vilanova i la Geltrú

Libraries main indicators Libraries 13 Visitors 2. 873. 000 Loans 302. 100 Holdings 482. 100 Books 254. 150 e-Journals 6. 770 Databases 152 Users trained 7. 800 Reading places 2. 865 Staff 93 librarians, 54 other staff Budget 2. 097. 000€ (out of whole UPC budget 267. 187. 000€) Period of reference 2004

Contents • UPC and the University Library • Research at UPC: 2010 horizon • UPC libraries and research • Library research services • Accessing scientific information • Extending “open access” at UPC • Raising the awareness of the academic community • TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server • Fènix. Doc • Research depository • New library services • UPC observatory of scientific publications • UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (I) The environment: • Europe: ERA (European Research Area) • Spain: 2004 -2007 National Plan for Research, Development and Technological Innovation • Catalonia: 2005 -2008 Plan for Research, Development and Technological Innovation

Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (III) 2005 -2010 UPC Plan for Research, Development and Innovation Main lines of action: • • • a strategic social agenda recruiting talent valuing the results of research new organisational formulas and contrasted quality

Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (IV) Marenostrum supercomputer, host at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Research at UPC: 2010 horizon (II) UPC Areas Architecture and Civil Engineering Social, Human and Life Sciences Physics and Chemistry Mathematics and Statistics Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Information and Communication Technologies Production Technologies

Contents • UPC and the University Library • Research at UPC: 2010 horizon • UPC libraries and research • Library research services • Accessing scientific information • Extending “open access” at UPC • Raising the awareness of the academic community • TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server • Fènix. Doc • Research depository • New library services • UPC observatory of scientific publications • UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

Libraries and Research (I) Paideia: Strategic plan of the UPC libraries 2000 -2005 1. Learning – Library and Learning 2. Research – Library and Research 3. IT – Library and Network 4. Humanism – Library and Humanism 5. Management – Library and Organisation

Libraries and Research (II) 2005 -2010 UPC Plan for Research, Development and Innovation: Libraries are included in important areas of this framework document, such as: • the desire to strengthen channels that provide free and open access to the results of scientific and technological research, • the intention to provide researchers with resources and services in their research areas through library management and specialised information services, • cooperation in assessing research, etc.

Libraries and Research (III) Research Areas and Subject Librarians: • Establishment of UPC’s research and learning areas • Creation of subject-specific teams of librarians • Training in basic knowledge • Selecting and cataloguing resources

Contents • UPC and the University Library • Research at UPC: 2010 horizon • UPC libraries and research • Library research services • Accessing scientific information • Extending “open access” at UPC • Raising the awareness of the academic community • TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server • Fènix. Doc • Research depository • New library services • UPC observatory of scientific publications • UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

Accessing scientific information (I) By March 2005, its holdings amount to • 6. 800 e-journals: American Chemical Society, American Institute of Physics, Blackwell, Elsevier, JSTOR, PCI Full Text, Springer. Link, Wiley Inter. Science • 3. 650 e-books: Harrison's Online, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Safari Tech Books Online, Oxford Reference Online Core Collection • 36 databases: Business Source Elite, IEEE Xplore, Maths. Sci. Net, Zentralblatt Math • and 22 Spanish databases

Contents • UPC and the University Library • Research at UPC: 2010 horizon • UPC libraries and research • Library research services • Accessing scientific information • Extending “open access” at UPC • Raising the awareness of the academic community • TDX: Online Doctoral Thesis Server • Fènix. Doc • Research depository • New library services • UPC observatory of scientific publications • UPC Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

Raising the awareness of the academic community Budapest Open Access Initiative Spanish translation http: //bibliotecnica. upc. edu/rebiun/BOAI. pdf

Raising the awareness of the academic community Two days Workshop about Scholarly Communication: III Workshop Rebiun sobre proyectos digitales

Raising the awareness of the academic community Directory of Open Access Journal is also included in Bibliotècnica

Raising the awareness of the academic community http: //bibliotecnica. upc. es/e-portals/comunicacio_cientifica/ “Towards open access communication” Exhibition contents: • Electronic publication, Internet and Scholarly Communication • Authors • Universities and Research Results • University Libraries • Open access • Different strategic options

TDX: Online Doctoral Dissertations Server – – A Catalan Consortia (CBUC) joint project Remote search of full text documents Guarantees their storage for future preservation More than 1. 000 e-dissertations from 10 Catalan universities – The future: • Including all (nearly all) current theses in TDX • Including old (print) theses and dissertations • Promoting TDX as the embryo of an institutional repository for Catalan universities

TDX: Online Doctoral Dissertations Server http: //www. tdx. cbuc. es

Fènix. Doc: full-text versions of the scientific output • Fènix: – Referential database of UPC academic staff scientific production: • Awards, scientific comittes, european projects conference • Bibliographic references of books and journals articles and • proceedings, patents and dissertations – Information for research evaluation • Fènix. Doc: – Project undertaken by Research Planning Area and Libraries – Links the Fènix references with catalogue or full text when available

Fènix. Doc Funcionality Acces to scientific production by: l Researcher name l Department or Instute l Research group l Keyword

Fènix. Doc

Research repository (I) • The research repository aims to provide access to UPC scientific comunication: research reports, pre-prints and post-prints. • The Dublin Core and additional administrative metadata are used to label documents, following the specifications set out by the CBUC. • The system is managed by Dspace software. • It is structured around the University’s research communities, and allows each community to customise the contents.

Research repository (II)

UPC observatory of scientific publications • Comparative studies of the state of research at the UPC in relation to that of the main Spanish technical universities and other European universities (Cluster members) • Sources of information used: Journal Citation Report and Third European Report on Science and Technology

UPC observatory of scientific publications

UPC’s Intellectual Property Service (SEPI)

CONCLUSIONS We are working to: • demonstrate our capacity for active cooperation in the University’s commitment to increase the quantity and quality of research, development and innovation endeavours at UPC • adapt the library services to the requirements of the European Higher Education Area

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