Tuesday, May 9 2023, at the 4th Floor of the UPT Library and Undip Press, an Undip Institutional Repository (Undip-IR) Workshop was held in the context of Indexing Rama and Sinta of the Ministry of Education and Culture to Support the Publication of Scientific Papers and Ranking of Diponegoro University.
Institution Repository is a place for storing and disseminating information whose collection contains works published by the institution itself. In his remarks, Deputy Chancellor III Prof. Budi Setiyono, S.Sos, M.Pol.Admin, Ph.D explained that this activity was held in order to support the achievement of Undip Performance Indicators (IKU) towards World Class University and University ranking. In terms of ranking, the process of archiving libraries and journal publications managed by librarians and study program operators must be considered, awareness to increase digitization of archives because in terms of appearance and citations it is still lagging which has implications for Undip’s ranking position in Webometrics. It is hoped that the Institutional Repository will be maximized so that in the future it can be integrated into the indexing of Rama and Sinta from the Ministry of Education and Culture.
The report from the Head of the UPT Library and Undip Press represented by Mr. Sugiyanto, S.Pd explained that the policy of uploading scientific works and journals, intellectual property owned by universities needs to be developed through an Institutional Repositoyu that can be accessed by the wider community. Approximately 110 librarians and educational staff from universities and faculties / study programs attended this activity. The objectives of the Undip Institutional Repository Workshop include:
- Improving the usability of scientific work of the Academic Community for the benefit of improving education for the wider community
- Facilitating and facilitating wider access for the community to the scientific work of Undip Academics without limitations of place and time
- Increase Undip’s scientific competitiveness in the higher education system
- Optimizing the UPT Library function as an information center and deposit center for all scientific works of the Academic Community.
- Improving the quality of UPT Library services in the management and utilization of authentic and trusted scientific works.
- Increase Undip ranking.
Workshop materials were given by 2 resource persons to all activity participants. The first material is the Integration of Institutional Repositories into the RAMA National Repository System by Mr. Vincentius Widya Iswara, S.S., M.A. (Librarian at Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya) and Technical Institutional Repository Integration into RAMA by Mr. Agung Prasetyo Wibowo, S.S.I (Administrator of the Dinamika University Surabaya Repository).
It is hoped that librarians and librarians as well as educational staff in the Study Program will participate pro-actively in uploading scientific works to the Institutional Repository so that they can be indexed by RAMA and SINTA and increase Undip’s ranking in Webomatrics.