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Item Improving Institutional Repositories through User-Centered Design: Indicators from a Focus Group(MDPI, 2021-11-02) González-Pérez, L. I.; Ramírez-Montoya, M. S.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.User experience with intuitive and flexible digital platforms can be enjoyable and satisfying. A strategy to deliver such an experience is to place the users at the center of the design process and analyze their beliefs and perceptions to add appropriate platform features. This study conducted with focus groups as a qualitative method of data collection to investigate users’ preferences and develop a new landing page for institutional repositories with attractive functionalities based on their information-structural rules. The research question was: What are the motivations and experiences of users in an academic community when publishing scientific information in an institutional repository? The focus group technique used in this study had three sessions. Results showed that 50% of the participants did not know the functionalities of the institutional repository nor its benefits. Users’ perceptions of platforms such as ResearchGate or Google Scholar that provide academic production were also identified. The findings showed that motivating an academic community to use an institutional repository requires technological functions, user guidelines that identify what can or cannot be published in open access, and training programs for open access publication practices and institutional repository use. These measures align with global strategies to strengthen the digital identities of scientific communities and thus benefit open science.Item Protected Users: A Moodle Plugin To Improve Confidentiality and Privacy Support through User Aliases(MDPI, 2020-03-24) Amo, D.; Alier, M.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Fonseca, D.; Casañ, M. J.The privacy policies, terms, and conditions of use in any Learning Management System (LMS) are one-way contracts. The institution imposes clauses that the student can accept or decline. Students, once they accept conditions, should be able to exercise the rights granted by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). However, students cannot object to data processing and public profiling because it would be conceived as an impediment to teachers to execute their work with normality. Nonetheless, regarding GDPR and consulted legal advisors, a student could claim identity anonymization in the LMS, if adequate personal justifications are provided. Per contra, the current LMSs do not have any functionality that enables identity anonymization. This is a big problem that generates undesired situations which urgently requires a definitive solution. In this work, we surveyed students and teachers to validate the feasibility and acceptance of using aliases to anonymize their identity in LMSs as a sustainable solution to the problem. Considering the positive results, we developed a user-friendly plugin for Moodle that enables students' identity anonymization by the use of aliases. This plugin, presented in this work and named Protected users, is publicly available online at GitHub and published under GNU General Public License.Item GDPR Security and Confidentiality compliance in LMS’ a problem analysis and engineering solution proposal(ACM, 2019-10-16) Amo, D.; Alier, M.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Fonseca, D.; Casany, M. J.We have studied the main Learning Management Systems (LMSs) to comprehend how personal data is processed and stored. We found that all the users' personal information, activity, and logs are stored unencrypted on the server filesystem and databases. A user with access to such resources may have full access to all the personal information and meta-information stored. Therefore, the LMSs are very vulnerable to information leaks in front of targeted hacker attacks due to weak GDPR compliance. In this paper, we analyze this problem from a technical and operational perspective for the open-source market leader LMS Moodle, and we propose a solution and a prototype of implementation.Item Managing the digital identity as researchers(2019-08-18) García-Peñalvo, F. J.Recently IGI Global has introduced a link between its publications and ORCID. The ORCID id is the most recognized id for researchers into the scientific ecosystem (Carpenter, 2015). It provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. Having an ORCID id is a recommendable action in most of the journals for both publishing and reviewing, and it is expected to be mandatory metadata in all of them shortly. Moreover, nowadays a researcher must have and take care a digital identity as professional that is directly linked to his/her academic reputation. The researcher’s digital identity is composed by all the digital profiles he/she has in the different research profile systems such as ResearcherId (Wos), Scopus, Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate and so on (Harzing & Alakangas, 2016). Opening a researcher profile into a new system should be carefully thought because the researcher has to balance the opportunities and benefits it has with the responsibility and effort that it demands to be profitable. As many researcher profiles an academic has, most visibility and potential benefits he/she might have, but also much work is needed to maintain those profiles. The digital transformation of the research forces the researchers to open and maintain different digital profiles, but it should be done strategically, selecting the mandatory ones and choosing those that might give them a set of possible benefits (Bartling & Friesike, 2014). From JITR, we encourage to open and care, at least, these digital profiles as a researcher: ORCID, ResearcherID, Scopus and Google Scholar (García-Peñalvo, 2018).