Collaborations

TDX is based on DSpace open-source code. It is software created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Hewlett-Packard. Since 2021, CSUC is a bronze member of the DuraSpace community that develops the software. Its goal is to lead and innovate in open-source repositories aimed at universities, libraries, research centers, and cultural heritage organizations.

Since 2011, TDX is cooperating in the MetaArchive network to ensure the preservation of the theses. Also, to be a part of one of the worldwide pioneer initiatives in the field. MetaArchive is an association that supports, promotes, and distributes digital preservation to accomplish the common interest for all its members: digitally preserve academic and cultural documents for future generations. Therefore, it builds a network that ensures that other institutions can keep a copy of their digital content. It uses the LOCKSS software (developed by Stanford University) for the preservation strategy. It is constantly comparing the theses' copies available because in case of necessity, it can automatically restore any change.

TDX theses are available at OpenAIRE. OpenAIRE is a technical infrastructure that collects research results from connected data providers. It aims to establish an infrastructure of scholarly communication, open and sustainable, responsible for global management, analysis, and manipulation, and as a link for all the research results.

TDX theses can be accessed from the European theses portal, thanks to the coordination of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Since 2019, TDX serves as a safe repository for the Biblioteca de Catalunya, for the preservation of the Legal Deposit. This distributed preservation option allows the construction of a more sustainable model without losing any conservation guarantees.

Apart from daily security copies, once a month, a copy of all the theses is made and sent to the Cooperative Repository GEPA in Lleida, to make sure that at least one of the copies is afar from the original installation.

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