From March 7 to March 11, 2022, the Open Education Consortium organizes the Open Education Week – a large-scale event that offers the opportunity to learn and share the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.
Open Education Week was launched in 2012 by Open Education Global as a collaborative open forum, aiming to support the development of open education. Every year, OE Week highlights the innovative successes in open education worldwide. OE Week provides opportunities for a better understanding of open educational practices for all those involved in the educational process.
David Wiley, one of the promoters of open data, emphasizes the need to encourage open education, which includes open pedagogy characterized by specific key components, including Open Educational Resources (OER).
Open educational resources, according to Wikipedia, refer to teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
This week, the University Library aims to highlight and promote the Institutional Repository – an important database with integrated text of open access publications of TUM teachers and researchers.
The Repository of the Technical University of Moldova (IRTUM) contributes to the promotion of the scientific and educational resources of the University (through archiving, preservation and open access), increasing the competitiveness, visibility and impact of the institution at national and international level.
The principles of organization, operation and administration of the repository are described in the IRTUM Regulations, recently revised and approved in the meeting of the TUM Senate.
Publications are registered within collections; the collections are grouped into communities/sub-communities. On the Home page of the repository, you can find the top level communities, from which you are able to start browsing up to collections. The complete structure of the IRTUM repository, with the ability to browse and access the content, can be seen at http://repository.utm.md/community-list.
The registration of publications in IRTUM is done by the Library staff, responsible – the BTŞ Electronic Resources Service.
The process of describing publications in IRTUM is explained in the Guide to registering publications in the IRTUM Institutional Repository.
The rights for accessing and sharing publications registered in the repository are provided by the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license, which allows users to download publications and share them with others without modifying or using them for commercial purposes.
The number of publications currently available in IRTUM exceeds 18,000 (issues redacted from 1965 to 2022; the collection of articles from the «Meridian Ingineresc» magazine includes issues from 2001 to 2018).
The IRTUM repository platform uses open source software (DSpace), which allows it to be indexed by Google Scholar (GS).
In recent years, the Technical University of Moldova managed to maintain its first position nationally in the ranking of institutional repositories Ranking Web of Repositories – Transparent Ranking: Institutional Repositories by GS.
Number of GS-indexed IRTUM records: 2020 – 4990, 2021 – 9460.
In the current edition of this ranking (February 2022), TUM ranks 429th globally and first nationally, with 11,600 Google Scholar indexed publications.
TRANSPARENT RANKING: Institutional Repositories by Google Scholar 13th Edition (February 2022)
We invite the university community to increase the visibility of the Technical University, as well as the performance of its representatives, by submitting their own works in the Institutional Repository (teaching publications/courses; scientific-methodological works; monographs; scientific articles; educational materials, including presentations; guides; instructions; patents; Doctoral theses, self-reports; Master’s theses; other materials).
