Definitions

The Academic Repository of the University of Chile is the institutional archive that collects academic and scientific production generated in the university and allows the dissemination and access to national and international community.

It has a technology platform which allows you to organize, manage and preserve digital documentation of their academics, researchers and agencies internal managed by the Department of Library and Information Services (SISIB).

To implement guidelines and standards so that interoperability, preservation and perpetual access to digital documents and their metadata as well as data integrity and content favors apply.

The inspiration of this repository is to provide open access as much information on the scientific and academic production by the students and researchers from the University of Chile.

For operation of the Academic Repository defines the following guidelines:

• Access to the documents deposited will be governed according to the licenses set forth by different authors and academic units when entering documents.
• It is possible to redefine the terms of access and viewing documents, academics and researchers, if necessary.

Depositing a wide range of materials is acceptable:

• Journals articles (preprints and post-prints). Preprints are the versions presented by the authors to be evaluated by a committee of peers of scientific journals. The post prints are the final versions are published in scientific journals, with the logo editor. The database SHERPA/ROMEO collect the of more than 700 publishers, is a useful tool to test it is possible o not to deposit a scientific article journal.
• Communications conferences, seminars and other scientific meetings and presentations and posters
• Undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation
• Books and book chapters
• Teaching materials and presentations
• Technical Reports
• Images
• Maps
• Datasets
• Sound and Audiovisual Recordings
• Institutional Documentation: official documents, administrative reports.
• Different publication formats are accepted, but for reasons of accessibility and digital preservation is recommended an easily readable format in the web environment (such as PDF).

• Metadata

  Descriptive information of the documents deposited in the repository facilitates recovery, authentication, appraisal, preservation and / or interoperability.

  The Dublin Core metadata scheme is used. Any user can access the metadata. This metadata can be reused without explicit permission provided credit is given to the original metadata record in the Academic Repository of the University of Chile is made.

• All versions of the documents filed are retained. If a new edition of a work is deposited, a new metadata record is created and is considered as a new document. If the author wishes, you can determine access to full text only to the most recent edition.

• Delete records is not contemplated, except works the following cases:

  • Works that are not relevant to the objectives defined by the Repository.
  • Support a file format or display which is poor.
  • Contain a virus or other technical problem arises.
• To ensure the preservation of the documents will be available in institutional storage servers, performing backups and periodic reviews to ensure the integrity of the files.
• If necessary, consider copy, convert or migrate the documents to other media or formats for preservation and access purposes (for example, if the current media or formats are obsolete).

Several publication formats are accepted, but for reasons of accessibility and digital preservation is an easily readable format recommended in the web environment (such as PDF) files whose format is open as RTF, TIFF, JPG

The DSpace software dividing files into 3 different categories based on the degree of support level format:

• Supported: DSpace fully support the format.
• known: DSpace recognize the format but full support file is not 100% guaranteed.
• Not supported: DSpace format not recognized.

Detail of support offered DSpace

MIME type	Description	Extensions	Level
application/octet-stream	Unknown		unsupported
text/plain	License		known
application/marc	MARC		supported
application/mathematica	Mathematica	ma	known
application/msword	Microsoft Word	doc	known
application/pdf	Adobe PDF	pdf	supported
application/postscript	Postscript	ai, eps, ps	supported
application/sgml	SGML	sgm, sgml	known
application/vnd.ms-excel	Microsoft Excel	xls	known
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint	Microsoft Powerpoint	ppt	known
application/vnd.ms-project	Microsoft Project	mpd, mpp, mpx	known
application/vnd.visio	Microsoft Visio	vsd	known
application/wordperfect5.1	WordPerfect	wpd	known
application/x-dvi	TeX dvi	dvi	known
application/x-filemaker	FMP3	fm	known
application/x-latex	LateX	latex	known
application/x-photoshop	Photoshop	pdd, psd	known
application/x-tex	TeX	tex	known
audio/basic	audio/basic	au, snd	known
audio/x-aiff	AIFF	aif, aifc, aiff	supported
audio/x-mpeg	MPEG Audio	abs, mpa, mpega	supported
audio/x-pn-realaudio	RealAudio	ra, ram	known
audio/x-wav	WAV	wav	supported
image/gif	GIF	gif	supported
image/jpeg	JPEG	jpeg, jpg	supported
image/png	image/png	png	supported
image/tiff	TIFF	tif, tiff	supported
image/x-ms-bmp	BMP	bmp	known
image/x-photo-cd	Photo CD	pcd	known
text/css	CSS	css	known
text/html	HTML	htm, html	known
text/plain	Text	asc, txt	known
text/richtext	RTF	rtf	known
text/xml	XML	xml	known
video/mpeg	MPEG	mpe, mpeg, mpg	known
video/quicktime	Video Quicktime	mov, qt	known

The Academic Repository protects for the information entered by users Repository at time of registration to ensure privacy and will not use your information (name, email, etc.) for purposes other than the operation of the service.

• Decree exent No. 20795 de 2003 [download]

  This decree establishes the obligation to submit an electronic copy of the thesis and undergraduate at the University of Chile. Further that accompanied the delivery of an electronic version of the thesis student must submit an authorization form, duly signed where indicated whether to authorize access to the full text of your thesis. It is established that the Schools and Departments of Study undergraduate and graduate of the University must send the thesis in electronic format along with the authorization form to the Office of Information and Library Services through its School Libraries or Institute.

• Circular letter No. 45 de 2003 [download]

  This circular letter gives instructions to deliver the thesis in electronic format from the Faculties and Institutes to Dirección de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB).