MODERN INFORMATION SERVICES FOR IMPROVEMENT STUDY QUALITY

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MISISQ: INVOLVEMENT • CREATIVITY • SUSTAINABILITY
MOLDOVAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM

VISIBILITY AND INTERNATIONALIZATION

USARB
THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

Igor AFATIN, Lina MIHALUŢA, Tatiana PRIAN,

Scientific Library Alecu Russo State University
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”The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space
where you can communicate through sharing information.”
Tim Berners-Lee

Competitiveness Open Access Visibility of

Information and Creating and
communication
of the institution research results disseminating
technologies knowledge in society

INSTITUTIONAL
research and
changing the company's REPOSITORY
vision of information teaching activities

transformation of the new

established new access electronic scientific
storage
way of thinking and ways and educational
methods
scientific communication materials

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RI ORA USARB (Open Research Archive)
(http://dspace.usarb.md:8080/jspui/)

2012:
• Studying, installing and testing open source
platforms to create repositories;
• developing the concept (determining the structure:
communities, collections and sub-collections);
• preparation of the package of normative documents
on open access publication
2013:
• Presenting the demo version of the new library
service IR ORA USARB (Open Research Archive)
Year 2012 – DSpace 1.8

MISISQ – Modern Information Services for Improvement Study Quality

Specific objectives: create institutional e-repositories for study and research output
Year 2018 – DSpace 6.2
of Moldova universities.
Figure1 Evolution of ORA USARB
Achieved (Working Group WP2 - e-Repositories): Development of technical
infrastructure and content management of the repository.

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Legal aspect

2015:
• Open Access Policy of Alecu Russo Balti State University –
http://bit.ly/2zrTefq
• Regulatory framework of Institutional Repository ORA (Open
Research Archive) USARB – http://bit.ly/2xNP9Qx
• Statement on publications’ archiving in Institutional Repository
– http://bit.ly/2OQHgkX

Registration:
Policy
• Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies
ROARMAP - http://bit.ly/2xP9Ag7
Repository
• OpenDOAR - http://bit.ly/2NF1RvG Figure 2 Regulatory documents accessing
• Registry of Open Access Repositories - http://bit.ly/2N0cjZO

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Legal aspect

coordinator and executor in Scientific Library placement of the scientific

the creation of IR product in open access

RESPONSIBILITIES

in terms of content from a technological point of view

• Receiving documents / information • ensuring the operation of the

from authors for the purpose of software;
placing them in IR; • technical support;
• examining the legality of distributing • preservation of electronic publications.
open access documents;
• the immediate realization of archiving
of documents in the repository;
• advising authors on self-archiving
publications

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Technological aspect

DSpace1.8 CentOS 7 Ant Maven Tomcat 7 Other Authors

Logo USARB logo ORA metadata

logo MISISQ language (ISO
(with link) USARB
639-1:2002)

brief
Apache Google
presentation of Breadcrumbs
SOLR Analytics DSpace 6.2
the repository

General Statistics
OS Content and and
Settings
optimizations Metadata Metrics

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Structure
Annals
UNIVERSITY SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY
Articles

INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTION Bibliography

„ION CREANGĂ” TEACHER'S TRAINING Biobibliography

COLLEGE
Catologues
FACULTY OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Conferences, Colloquia
10 communities
FACULTY OF FILOLOGY Information Literacy
structured
FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL C Dictionaries
ORA USARB
SCIENCES,PSYCHOLOGY AND ARTS in collections according to
Ghuides.Tutorials
FACULTY OF EXACT, ECONOMIC AND
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
type of document
Monographs
BĂLŢI BRANCH OF THE SCIENCE ACADEMY
OF MOLDOVA Multimedia

HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT OF USARB Projects. Reports

Didactical and methodical publications

JOURNALS
Doctoral thesis abstract
DOCTORAL STUDIES
Doctoral desertation

Figure 3 ORA USARB Structure

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Development

Working group WP.2 The National

Creating the
meetings. Marathon of
workgroup .
E-repositories. Publications
Trainings
Trainings. Archiving in IR

817
592
277 365 300
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2013 year 2014 year 2015 year 2016 year 2017 year 2018 to present

Figure 4 Records per year ORA USARB

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Conţinut
The ORA USARB collection currently contains :
• 2 955 Items :
 articles – 2 266,
 publications – 487,
 multimedia – 202
• 1 057 Author
• more than 9 000 Subject
2266
6 39 25 5 76 9 7
Figure 5 Content of ORA USARB by type of document
Doctoral studies 19
Journals 114
Bălţi Branch of the Science Academy of Moldova 82
Faculty of Exact, Economic and Environmental… 610
Faculty of Educational Sciences,Psychology… 449
Faculty of Filology 556
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences 235
„Ion Creangă” Teacher's Training College 14
Institutional Collection 33 843
University Scientific Library
Figure 6 Content of ORA USARB in communities
8 21 202 158 114 12 7 Indexing sources: Periodical publications edited by USARB;
conference materials, thematic collections; bibliographies,
bio-bibliographies and monographs; doctoral dissertations
and doctoral dissertations (USARB employees); various
scientific, didactic, regulatory and informative materials, or
any other genre at the request of the author and / or the
recommendation of the management of the structural
subdivision.
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 Impact

Table 1 ORA USARB - Actions Performed

Bitstream Views 206 637
Item Views 131 572
Searches Performed 85 881
browse 65 185
browse_by_item 59 575 Figure 8 Sessions - geographical coverage
browse_mini 8 479
browse_by_value 8 020
Collection Views 5 532
Community Views 2 346

Figure 7 Overview of the audience

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Impact
Table 2 Top page
Page Title Page % Page
Views Views
1 ORA USARB: Search 4 170 16,93 %
2 ORA USARB: Browsing DSpace 3 289 13,36 %
3 ORA USARB: Home 2 762 11,22 %
4 ORA USARB: BIBLIOTECA ŞTIINŢIFICĂ 546 2,22 %
5 ORA USARB: FACULTATEA DE ŞTIINŢE ALE 450 1,83 %
Figure10 Traffic channels
EDUCAŢIEI, PSIHOLOGIE ŞI ARTE
6 ORA USARB: Articole 313 1,27 %
7 ORA USARB FACULTATEA DE DREPT ŞI ŞTIINŢE 301 1,22 %
SOCIALE

Figure 11 Social traffic

Figure 9 Demographic criteria

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Promotion

Figura 12 ORA USARB tutorials Figura 13 Presentation of ORA USARB tutorials on the Library site

International Open Education Week

International Open Access Week
Month of Licentiate /Master`s/Doctoral studies
Chairs Day

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Promotion

Capitalization of Instituțional ORA USARB

(http://bit.ly/2NJ7bya)

• all teachers must provide edited publications to the Library to make research results
visible and increase rating;
• increasing the number of exposed works in open access;
• all teachers should place their courses;
• publishing of articles written by students and masters at conferences too.

Open Access to Information in USARB: Educational and Scientific Contributions

(http://bit.ly/2OT6QWb )

• Institutional Repository ORA USARB - one of the main open access services of the
scientific library used for research

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Conclusion

Online publishing

creating a viable and

increasing the visibility
the perception that
of the authors and
articles can be
hence the possibility
accessed by a larger
of a higher number of
number of users;
citations;
accessible system for
recording and
long-term centralized
controlling the
storage of full-text
number of
works in electronic
publications on
format;
Faculties,
Departments and
employees.

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Conclusion
Online Publishing
one of the main sources
and means of
communication and
scientific information pU
model of capitalization
of the scientific
research activity and
innovation of academic
staff
speed of traditional
• significantly speeding up
methods of scientific
communication
data sharing,
• creating the ability to
accessibility of check and reproduce the
research results in the results, analyze the data
network underlying the various
studies.
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