The Digital Repository of Mondragon Unibertsitatea gives open access to the full text of the documents generated at the university as a result of its academic, research and institutional activity, fulfilling the commitments of the institution's Open Access policies:

Objectives

Its objectives are to promote open access, to increase institutional visibility and impact, to ensure the safe preservation of digital content, and to facilitate its interoperability by means of technical standards.

Content

You will find doctoral theses, bachelor and master thesis, teaching materials, university publications, working documents, preprints, postprints, articles, conference proceedings, data sets, institutional documents, etc.

The importance of publishing in eBiltegia

• Academic and scientific production is gathered on a single platform
• Documents are described in metadata that follow international standards which facilitates interoperability.
• Faster scientific communication
• Maximum network visibility
• Increasing the impact of the work of authors
• Enables the impact and impact of deposited documents to be measured. The system provides usage and download statistics
• Guarantee of long-term access and preservation
• Reflection and memory of the institution's scientific and intellectual activity

Content preservation

The Library Service is responsible for eBiltegia, which uses DSpace, an open source program developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hewlett Packard (HP).

eBiltegia guarantees perpetual access and preservation of its contents through its hosting on secure university servers and complies with the technical requirements necessary to ensure interoperability with other information systems.

eBiltegia Digital Preservation Guidelines

• Integrity review
• Backups
• Hardware and software upgrades
• Format migration if required

Reuse of metadata

eBiltegia uses the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH) interoperability protocol to increase the visibility and impact of deposited documents. The OAI-MHP protocol allows other applications to collect metadata from documents deposited in eBiltegia. The metadata scheme used in eBiltegia is Dublin Core Metadata Terms.

The metadata of the records deposited in eBiltegia is distributed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. International, so that any collector or user may make use of metadata with the sole requirement to mention the source and identifier of the original registration in eBiltegia.

This licence relates exclusively to the metadata associated with the deposited materials and does not at any time replace or alter the specific licenses and permissions for each of them.