Latin-American ETD Portal: promoting access to electronic theses & dissertations via OAI

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Latin-American ETD Portal: promoting access to electronic theses & dissertations via OAI

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Objective: To present a new web portal for searching and access to electronic theses & dissertations published in Latin America. Methods: Implementation of open-source software for ETD metadata harvesting using OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. This presentation also show the experience of the University of Chile in the training and support to university libraries in Chile, Peru, Colombia and Argentina. Results: Website for querying simultaneously to more than 29 universities -in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Venezuelawith access to more than 90,000 full-text etheses & dissertations.

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2012