scholarly journals The Brazilian electronic theses and dissertations digital library: providing open access for scholarly information

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Barcellos Southwick
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Open Archives ◽  
Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Paper Address

This paper describes a project led by the Instituto Brasileiro de Informações em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict), a government institution, to build a national digital library for electronic theses and dissertations - Bibliteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD). The project has been a collaborative effort among Ibict, universities and other research centers in Brazil. The developers adopted a system architecture based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) in which universities and research centers act as data providers and Ibict as a service provider. A Brazilian metadata standard for electronic theses and dissertations was developed for the digital library. A toolkit including open source package was also developed by Ibict to be distributed to potential data providers. BDTD has been integrated with the international initiative: the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation (NDLTD). Discussions in the paper address various issues related to project design, development and management as well as the role played by Ibict. Conclusions highlight some important lessons learned to date and challenges for the future in expanding the BDTD project.

scholarly journals A Case Study of ETD Metadata Remediation at the University of Houston Libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Santi Thompson ◽  
Xiping Liu ◽  
Albert Duran ◽  
Anne Washington
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
Metadata Quality ◽  
Version 2.0 ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
The University ◽  
Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Future Plans

This paper provides a case study on remediating electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) metadata at the University of Houston Libraries. The authors provide an overview of the team’s efforts to revise existing ETD metadata in its institutional repository as part of their commitment to aligning ETD records with the Texas Digital Library Descriptive Metadata Guidelines for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Version 2.0 (TDL guidelines, version 2). The paper reviews the existing literature on metadata quality and ETD metadata practices, noting how their case study adds one of the first documented cases of ETD metadata remediation. The metadata upgrade process is described, with close attention to the tools and workflows developed to complete the remediation. The authors conclude the paper with a discussion of lessons learned, the project’s limitations, future plans, and the emerging needs of metadata remediation work.

scholarly journals ETDs, NDLTD, and open access: a 5S perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward A. Fox ◽  
Seungwon Yang ◽  
Seonho Kim
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Key Participants ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

Worldwide initiatives toward digital library (DL) support for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), facilitated by the work of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), are a key part of the move toward open access. When all graduate students learn to use openly available ETDs, and have experience with authoring and submission in connection with their own research results, it will be easy for them to continue these efforts through other contributions to open access. When all universities support ETD activities, they will be key participants in institutional repositories and open access, and will have engaged in discussion and infrastructure development supportive of further open access activities. Understanding of open access also can be facilitated through modeling of all of these efforts using the 5S framework, considering the key aspects of DL development: Societies, Scenarios, Spaces, Structures, and Streams.

scholarly journals STUDI BANDING PERANGKAT LUNAK APLIKASI GANESHA DIGITAL LIBRARY (GDL) SEBAGAI REPOSITORY INSTITUSI BERBASIS OPEN SOURCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Ilham Arnomo
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Application Software ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Metadata Standard ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Metadata Harvesting ◽  
Open Archives

The purpose of the research is to analyze the technical features of the Ganesha Digital Library (GDL) application with DSpace and Eprints, so that it will be proved technically whether the GDL application can meet the standards and criteria as the application software repository institution ?. Using experimental approach research methods by installing GDL, DSpace and Eprints application to further analyze and compare the technical features of the three applications. The results show that GDL application meet standards and criteria as institutional repository application, since they have most of the technical features of institutional repositories including the features of the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting); has a dublincore metadata standard; and has been licensed to open source (General Public License) GPL that is needed for the utilization, use and development of institutional repository applications according to the needs of a college institution.

scholarly journals Using the Harvesting Method to Submit ETDs into ProQuest

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marielle Veve
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Global Database ◽  
Harvesting Method ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Open Archives ◽  
Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Open Archives Initiative

The following case study describes an academic library’s recent experience implementing the harvesting method to submit electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) into the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database (PQDT). In this lesser-known approach, ETDs are deposited first in the institutional repository (IR), where they get processed, to be later harvested for free by ProQuest through the IR’s Open Archives Initiative (OAI) feed. The method provides a series of advantages over some of the alternative methods, including students’ choice to opt-in or out from ProQuest, better control over the embargo restrictions, and more customization power without having to rely on overly complicated workflows. Institutions interested in adopting a simple, automated, post-IR method to submit ETDs into ProQuest, while keeping the local workflow, should benefit from this method. 

The development of the China Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Jin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

Mentorship in the Context of Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research: Lessons Learned from the RAND/Hartford Program for Building Interdisciplinary Geriatric Research Centers

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 1546-1555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna J. Keyser ◽  
Zainab Abedin ◽  
Dana J. Schultz ◽  
Harold Alan Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Geriatric Research

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Initiatives: A Survey of University Libraries in Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 41-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel E. Baro ◽  
Vera Z. Godfrey ◽  
Monica E. Eze
Keyword(s):  
University Libraries ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

scholarly journals The doctoral dissertation and scholarly communication: Adapting to changing publication practices among graduate students

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxanne Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Copyright Transfer ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Future Publication ◽  
Electronic Theses And Dissertations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theses And Dissertations

When I first began working with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), the conversation in libraries appeared to revolve around open access and publication embargoes. It seemed to me that the primary task for scholarly communication librarians in this area was to broaden access to graduate research while protecting future publication opportunities for individual authors. As graduate students begin to publish earlier in their careers, the relationship between the doctoral dissertation and scholarly publishing is evolving. Many students now include their own previously published work in a dissertation, requiring instruction in publication contracts and copyright transfer agreements at the point of submission to the graduate school.

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