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| University of Barcelona Digital Repository | |
|---|---|
| Name | University of Barcelona Digital Repository |
| Established | 2007 |
| Institution | University of Barcelona |
| Location | Barcelona |
| Country | Spain |
| Items collected | theses, articles, datasets, audiovisuals, reports |
| Access | open access, restricted collections |
| Website | University of Barcelona |
University of Barcelona Digital Repository
The University of Barcelona Digital Repository is the open-access archival platform of the University of Barcelona, hosting scholarly output produced by its faculties, research institutes, and affiliated centers. It functions as a preservation and dissemination hub that connects the University of Barcelona with international infrastructures such as OpenAIRE, DRIVER, and collaborations with national organizations like the Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya and the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The repository aggregates doctoral theses, peer-reviewed articles, teaching materials, research datasets, and cultural heritage items drawn from the university’s collections and partnerships with institutions including the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya.
Founded in the late 2000s amid a wave of institutional repositories created after the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, the repository emerged from institutional strategies aligned with European research policy frameworks such as the Lisbon Strategy and the Horizon 2020 programme. Early development involved partnerships with regional bodies including the Generalitat de Catalunya and national consortia like the RedIRIS network. The repository expanded during reforms affecting doctoral education prompted by the Bologna Process, and later integrated services responding to mandates from the European Research Council and Spanish research assessment exercises managed by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
Collections span multiple schools and research institutes across the University of Barcelona, encompassing humanities holdings linked to collaborations with the Museu Marítim de Barcelona and science outputs associated with the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). The repository stores doctoral dissertations deposited under regulations influenced by the Royal Decree 99/2011 and faculty-authored articles from departments comparable to the Facultat de Medicina, Facultat de Dret, and Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres. It includes datasets generated in consortia with entities like the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and audiovisual materials from partnerships with broadcasters such as the Televisió de Catalunya. Special collections feature digitized manuscripts and images connected to the Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona and the Biblioteca de Filosofia i Lletres.
Access policies reflect compliance with Spanish intellectual property frameworks including provisions related to the Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (Spain) and funder requirements from organizations such as the European Commission and the Wellcome Trust when applicable. The repository implements embargo options aligned with publisher policies of journals indexed in services like SCImago Journal Rank and Journal Citation Reports. Preservation workflows coordinate with national memory initiatives exemplified by the Repositòri Academíc General de Catalunya and align with the Open Archival Information System standard promoted by bodies like the Digital Preservation Coalition and the European Library. Deposit mandates by the University of Barcelona for doctoral theses and project deliverables are managed alongside triage procedures used by international repositories such as HAL (open archive) and PubMed Central.
The platform is built on repository software common in academic infrastructures, interoperating with harvesting protocols endorsed by OAI-PMH and integrating metadata standards comparable to Dublin Core and the DataCite schema for datasets. Persistent identifiers are provided in the form of handles or DOIs registered with agencies like CrossRef and DataCite to enable citation tracking in indices such as Scopus and Web of Science. The technical stack includes replication and backup policies reflecting practices from the European Grid Infrastructure and cloud strategies coordinated with providers used by Spanish research institutions, and supports APIs compatible with services like ORCID and institutional CRIS systems akin to Pure (Elsevier) or Symplectic Elements.
User-facing services offer assisted deposit workflows for faculty and graduate students similar to those promoted by SPARC initiatives, automated ingest for theses submission aligned with university regulations, and metadata enrichment tools that map author affiliations to identifiers such as ORCID and institutional identifiers used by the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). The repository exposes search and discovery features supporting advanced queries used by researchers linked to networks like ResearchGate and discovery layers interoperable with platforms such as Unpaywall. Staff provide training and outreach coordinated with academic units including the Barcelona School of Economics and the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences, and support for compliance reporting to funding agencies like the European Research Council and national ministries.
As the principal scholarly communications infrastructure of the University of Barcelona, the repository contributes to institutional visibility in rankings and bibliometric evaluations implemented by organizations such as Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings. It supports open science policies promoted by the European Commission and plays a role in research assessment exercises analogous to those overseen by the ANECA agency. By enabling long-term access to research outputs produced in collaboration with centers such as the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)],] the repository underpins interdisciplinary initiatives, facilitates knowledge transfer to cultural partners like the Palau de la Música Catalana, and enhances the university’s participation in transnational research programmes including COST actions and ERC projects.
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