Local and Interoperable Digital Libraries of Theses and

DissertationsThe New Brazilian Scenario

Open Repositories 2015

Washington L. R. de C. SegundoTainá Batista AssisMilton ShintakuDiego José MacêdoMárcio R. Gurgel do AmaralAlan C. de Lima Oliveira

Is it gray literature?

• thesis or dissertation despite being commonly called as "gray literature“• may still be considered to belong to the class of scientific objects

Local digital libraries for theses and dissertations

• Specific software: TEDE (2002)• TEDE = PHP + Apache + MySQL

Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

• 300,000 itens in full text and open access• 30% of all harvested scientific digital production • 100 brazilian institutions

New Publishing System of Theses and Dissertations (TEDE2)

• In the final year of 2014, a new version of TEDE (called TEDE2)• based on a customization of software DSpace 4.2• https://github.com/ibict br/TEDE http://bit.ly/TEDE2keyfeatures

Key features: visual identity

Key features: GUI batch import

Key features: Suggestions in the submission form

Key features: Auto-generate dc.descripition.citation

Key fetaures: Auto-generate dc.rights and dc.date.available

Key features: Sharing and bib export links• Export metadata in Endnote and BibTex format• Sharing item link to Facebook, Twiter and Google+

Key fetures: Document preview in “reveal” mode

Key features: graphical access statistics

Conclusions

• Customization of open source DSpace for the dissemination of theses and dissertations• resulted updating the TEDE software• It implies different factors aimed at adapting the tool to meet the

peculiarities of this specific document type• and it forces the institution’s teams to get used with a robust software

for institutional repositories• We wish to extend these features to a generic DSpace customization

for lRs

washingtonsegundo@ibict.br