Resumen: El artículo analiza el estado de la producción y difusión de tesis doctorales en las universidades españolas, a la luz de los cambios acaecidos en el período [1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. Entre los factores de transformación cabe señalar el proceso de adaptación al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES), el enorme impacto de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones (TIC) y el movimiento orientado al acceso abierto (Open Access) de los documentos científi cos. Después de una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfi ca de la literatura profesional sobre tesis doctorales, se examinan las series estadísticas elaboradas por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), EUROSTAT y otras fuentes especializadas. A continuación, se describen algunas de las principales bases de datos y repositorios cooperativos de tesis existentes a nivel español e internacional. Finalmente, se analizan los datos obtenidos y se extraen algunas conclusiones sobre la capacidad del sistema académico español para generar y difundir conocimiento a partir de la formación de nuevos investigadores.Palabras clave: Tesis doctorales, repositorios, cooperación, universidad, España. Spain (1997Spain ( -2008
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Crossref is an official digital object identifier (DOI) registration agency launched in 2000 as a joint effort between publishers to allow persistent cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journals. Our study explores the coverage of Crossref for tracking literature in the arts and humanities, which usually has a national or regional focus and targets domestic audiences. An analysis of the coverage of ERIH PLUS journals shows that Crossref indexes more sources than Scopus and includes additional journals from Eastern and Southern Europe and the Global South. Crossref limitations arise when analysing the amount of metadata deposited by publishers. Just two thirds of the journals deposit abstracts and ORCIDs and around a third deposit affiliations. The level of metadata completion for individual articles is lower, with major differences depending on the language of the document. Just half of the journals actually deposit references. As a result, Scopus retrieves more citations than Crossref, except for publications in German and French. Crossref represents a promising bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and humanities, but is in need of improvement regarding the level of metadata completion.
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The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development are funding programmes created by the European Union to support and foster research. This study aims to describe the features and assess the performance of Social Sciences and Humanities research projects funded under the Sixth Framework Programme that was active between 2002 and 2006. The results show that most funded projects were in the fields of economics and political sciences, in line with the use of the Framework Programme to enhance economic development and the integration process in Europe. Research teams showed a high level of collaboration with an average of 7.8 countries and 10.8 institutions involved in each project. However, the large size and diversity of consortia did not translate into a large number of co-authored scholarly journal articles. The results show that research funds in the Social Sciences and Humanities may have long-term effects, with some outputs acknowledging funding being published more than a decade after the end of the project. Qualitative analysis of the acknowledgements in the articles revealed four types of support: direct funding; utilisation of results from former funded projects as the basis for further research; involvement in conferences and networks resulting from funded projects; and utilisation of datasets or other products resulting from former funded projects. The study also illustrates the difficulties in retrieving the outputs resulting from funded projects since the funding information in Scopus is heterogeneous and not standardised. As a result, the type of assessment conducted in this project is time-consuming and requires a significant amount of manpower to clean and standardise the data. Nevertheless, the procedure could be applied to analyse the performance of subsequent European Framework Programmes in building a European Research Area in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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