The accessibility to doctoral theses in Spain: A political change and a reconsidering of its nature
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Abstract
Since the York Seminar has included Doctoral Theses in the considered "grey" documents, the technologies applied to the electronically edition of studies and academic texts in the universities -i.e. Doctoral Theses-, have produced a considerable change regarding the accessibility in Spain. The development of internet and the information and communication technologies (TIC) has open a range of possibilities to the digital document production related to virtual university libraries, which guarantee the access to the scientific investigation and therefore to the knowledge in the actual global society. This work analyzed the changes accomplished in the Spanish university politics regarding the preservation, diffusion and access of the defended Theses in every Spanish university; the steps taken to manage it; ongoing projects focus in allowing access to this non-conventional literature; and the reasons why all these changes should be legitimated in every country. We have located this work in the context of other international experiences, open to the Hispanic community, as the one from the University of Virginia Tech, Cyberteses in Lyon and the one in Montreal. We want to point out as well the Australian Digital Theses Program (ADT) and the Networked Digital Library of These and Dissertations (NDLTD) of Virginia. We will use the pertinent information resources, normative and theory contributions about this topic, as well as projects available in the network to give an overall view of the interesting and fast phenomenon that has determinate the transfer, in just a quarter of century, from a nearly total absence of national repertories to an accurate and normalized attention to this academic works, after their defence and preservation in the pertinent information units, TESEO Data Bases and a large variety of ongoing projects. The Spanish proposals will be analyzed as well: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Alicante), that offers the possibility of accept in his no limit domain all the Theses defended with success in any Hispanic language in very country of the world; Proyecto CESCA, Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya "Tesis doctorales en Red", with the involvement of nine publics Universities in the framework of the agreement "La Universitat digital a Catalunya, 1999 – 2003"- offers a Doctoral Theses server in digital format that allows the remote consultation of the documents, and assure its storage and preservation; the Euskadi.net of agricultural investigation, the project from the University of Valencia, etc. Our conclusion is that even if nowadays in Spain the accessibility to Grey Literature in general and to the Doctoral Theses in particular has improved a lot due to all the actual projects ongoing, there is still a lot to do in this matter until finally arrive to the day that Grey Literature can have free and effective access.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.011 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".