Una mirada hacia los repositorios institucionales en las universidades manabitas

Abstract

Higher education institutions are generators of large volumes of information resulting from research work, therefore, the usefulness of capturing it and preserving it for later viewing is increasing. The objective of this research is to characterize the institutional repositories in the universities of the province of Manabí. For this, a descriptive and exploratory study of the current state of Open Access academic repositories was carried out, using the database records of national and international directories and the information available on their own websites. The approach is mixed considering that the information is examined from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Direct observation was used as the data collection method. For the parameters to be measured in the description, the RECOLETA Guide of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT, 2021) was used, adapting 5 of the 8 criteria defined as basic for institutional research repositories, such as: Visibility; Policies; Legal aspects; Logs and Statistics and Added Value Services and Features. According to these indicators, various problems were detected in the repositories of the universities of the province, which constitutes a limitation to appear in international aggregators or collectors such as: LA Reference, OpenDOAR and ROAR, which negatively impacts their visibility.