Université Laval new institutionnal repository

[Pierre Lasou]

Bonjour,

We are glad to announce that Université Laval has now its new Institutional Repository, officially launched on April28th,  2016. It is called Corpus^UL and uses DSpace.

 

Corpus^UL URL : https://corpus.ulaval.ca/

 

Only peer review articles can be submitted for the moment. We have 280 articles so far, all submitted by researchers over the last 2 month. The library does not submit on behalf of researchers but takes charges of publishers policy and metadata (author authority control, link to version of record).

 

Following are some of the main developments and implementation choices that were made :

1. Create collection based on document type, not University structure (Faculty, Research centers, etc.). Give visibility to document access status in public pages (3 status: open access, temporary restricted access, permanent restriction).
   
2. For permanent restriction, document reason for submitters
   
3. Clearly identify Université Laval authors using our Library authority control file.
   
4. Create a specific Author page to list publications and group them by collections
   
5. Implement OAI-PMH with Dublin Core, MODS and METS. The METS format is incorporating the NISO Licence and indicators elements (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/ali/). https://corpus.ulaval.ca/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
   
6. Create a web service based on DSpace API to help Faculty to build auhor’s list of publication (Swagger Documentation : https://corpus.ulaval.ca/corpus-api-docs/ ) 
   

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If you have questions or commentary, do not hesitate to ask!

 

Thank you very much.

 

Cheers, 

Pierre Lasou

Scholarly Communication Librarian

Université Laval

Québec, Canada