scholarly journals A Practice and Value Proposal for Doctoral Dissertation Data Curation

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Aaron Collie ◽  
Michael Witt

The preparation and publication of dissertations can be viewed as a subsystem of scholarly communication, and the treatment of data that support doctoral research can be mapped in a very controlled manner to the data curation lifecycle. Dissertation datasets represent “low-hanging fruit” for universities who are developing institutional data collections. The current workflow for processing electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) at a typical American university is presented, and a new practice is proposed that includes datasets in the process of formulating, awarding, and disseminating dissertations in a way that enables them to be linked and curated together. The value proposition and new roles for the university and its student-authors, faculty, graduate programs and librarians are explored.

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roxanne Shirazi

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 293-307
Author(s):  
Mark Edward Phillips ◽  
Daniel Gelaw Alemneh ◽  
Brenda Reyes Ayala

Purpose – Increasingly, higher education institutions worldwide are accepting only electronic versions of their students’ theses and dissertations. These electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) frequently feature embedded URLs in body, footnote and references section of the document. Additionally the web as ETD subject appears to be on an upward trajectory as the web becomes an increasingly important part of everyday life. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyzed URL references in 4,335 ETDs in the UNT ETD collection. Links were extracted from the full-text documents, cleaned and canonicalized, deconstructed in the subparts of a URL and then indexed with the full-text indexer Solr. Queries to aggregate and generate overall statistics and trends were generated against the Solr index. The resulting data were analyzed for patterns and trends within a variety of groupings. Findings – ETDs at the University of North Texas that include URL references have increased over the past 14 years from 23 percent in 1999 to 80 percent in 2012. URLs are being included into ETDs in the majority of cases: 62 percent of the publications analyzed in this work contained URLs. Originality/value – This research establishes that web resources are being widely cited in UNT's ETDs and that growth in citing these resources has been observed. Further it provides a preliminary framework for technical methods appropriate for approaching analysis of similar data that may be applicable to other sets of documents or subject areas.


2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Santi Thompson ◽  
Xiping Liu ◽  
Albert Duran ◽  
Anne Washington

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 96-108
Author(s):  
Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita ◽  
Rexwhite Tega Enakrire ◽  
Masimba Clyde Muziringa

Globally, electronic thesis and dissertations (ETDs) are deposited within the institutional and national repository portals and related databases. The purpose was to increase visibility of research output, and preserve and manage knowledge sharing among scholars. The growth of ETDs throughout the world has transformed the scholarly communication landscape and Zimbabwe is no exception in this revolution. ETDs are important data sets for research and socio-economic development, such that, their creation, coordination and management in academic institution should not be undermined. The article explores how ETDs have transformed scholarly research through knowledge sharing. The article highlighted the experiences of academic institutions in creating and developing ETD's in Zimbabwe. The study makes recommendations to enhance ETD's culture in academic libraries in Zimbabwe.


2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta I. Shaffer

Despite the death threats against schools of library and information science (LIS) that were rampant during the final decades of the twentieth century, LIS graduate programs are alive and well and have a promising prognosis for the twenty-first century. The challenge, however, is to adapt to the changing personae of the American university and the emerging roles of information professionals in all aspects of our society. Today’s university is less concerned with maintaining the strict boundaries of traditional disciplines and instead encourages thinking that is transdisciplinary. Although this new model respects the uniqueness of various subject areas, it celebrates collaboration . . .


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 250-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Han

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of total cost of ownership (TOC) for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD). Only few articles have been published to discuss the costs associated with repository and/or theses and dissertations (TD). Design/methodology/approach – The paper first provides literature reviews in costs associated with repository and TD. By using the DCC life cycle model, the author presents costs for each actionable category: create or receive, appraise & select, ingest, preservation action, store, access, use and reuse and transform. The paper presents four TOCs to illustrate the changes of TOCs from 2005 to current time. Findings – The paper gives one case study of the TOCs for ETD over the years, and illustrates how the University lowered the TOCs. The current ETD's TOC is on a par with these costs of two other studies published related to repository titles. The TOC has been decreased from the traditional paper-based TD of $75 per title to ETD of $69 in 2005. By removing the ProQuest processing fee of $55, the TOC decreased to $14.37 in 2010. The TOC is currently $6.33 per title after the ETD collection was migrated to the University of Arizona repository. Research limitations/implications – Readers shall be aware that there are no “transform” and little “preservation action” tasks performed. The current cost of “transform” is $0 due to the nature of ETD of its rigid format requirements, Originality/value – The paper fulfills the need to study costs associated with repository titles, especially ETD titles. It also provide a way to estimate costs for institutions planning to start ETD collections.


2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliane Braga de Oliveira ◽  
Georgete Medleg Rodrigues

Resumo Apresenta resultados obtidos em pesquisa de doutorado cujo objetivo geral foi o de compreender como a Ciência da Informação (CI) se apropria de conceitos, partindo do caso específico da apropriação e da reformulação do conceito de memória na produção científica da área no Brasil. Adota como referencial teórico o modelo de construção do conhecimento proposto por Wersig, conforme o qual a Ciência da Informação deve tecer uma rede conceitual a partir da reformulação de modelos genéricos e interconceitos. Nos objetivos específicos, identificar os “atratores” do conceito de memória na Ciência da Informação; analisar suas apropriações e reformulações na produção dos programas de pós-graduação em CI no Brasil; verificar a existência de relações entre a produção de trabalhos sobre memória e a área de graduação dos autores e/ou ao programa de pós-graduação em CI nos quais os trabalhos foram produzidos. Como método, adotou-se a análise de conteúdo e, como campo empírico, a produção científica da área. Para a análise quantitativa dos dados, utilizou-se do Corpógrafo, plataforma de análise sobre corpora. Apresenta a análise das teses e dissertações componentes da amostra analisada na pesquisa. Os resultados evidenciaram a pouca relevância do tema na literatura da área. Verificou-se que os autores mais produtivos são egressos de programas de pós-graduação em CI, mas não desenvolvem suas pesquisas nesses programas, apesar de divulgarem seus estudos em periódicos e eventos específicos da Ciência da Informação. Verificou-se também a existência de um núcleo de estudos teóricos sobre memória, tendência não identificada na literatura internacional. O estudo constatou a apropriação do conceito de memória pela Ciência da Informação no Brasil, em apenas um dos aspectos identificados na literatura internacional, o aspecto social. Essa apropriação mostrou ser mais diretamente influenciada pela formação acadêmica dos emissores das mensagens do que pelo contexto de produção destas últimas.Palavras-chave  memória; Ciência da Informação; ArquivologiaAbstract Shows results in doctoral research that aims to understand how Information Science (IS) appropriates concepts, based on the specific case of appropriation and recasting of the concept of memory in scientific production in Brazil. Uses the knowledge building model proposed by Wersig in which Information Science must weave a conceptual network from the reformulation of broad models and inter-concepts. Specific objectives were to: identify the "atractors" of the memory concept in information science; analyze its appropriations and reformulations in production of IS in Brazil; check the existence of relations between the production of work about memory and the majors of the authors and/or post-graduate programs in IS in which the work was produced. Adopts documental and bibliographical research as procedure and, as a method, content analysis. For the quantitative analysis of data, we used the Corpograph, a platform to analyze corpora. The article presents the analysis of theses and dissertations which compose the sample analyzed in the research. The results shows little relevance of the theme in the literature of the area. It was noted that the most productive authors originate from post-graduation programs in IS, but do not develop their research on these programs, although they communicate their studies in journals and specific events in Information Science. There was also a core of theoretical studies on memory, a trend unidentified in the international literature. The study found the appropriation concept of memory for Information Science in Brazil, in only one aspect identified in international literature: the social aspect. This appropriation has proven to be more directly influenced by the academic background of issuers of messages than by production context.Keywords memory; Information Science; Archival Science


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea T. Johnston ◽  
Judith C. Russell

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) are participating in an innovative program to explore whether making electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) available in print through online retail sites can have positive impacts for graduates, the University, and the general public. Digitization and metadata enhancement have improved discoverability and ease of access for ETDs in the Institutional Repository at the University of Florida (IR@UF). However, through this new program, research can be shared widely beyond academe with practitioners, corporate researchers, independent scholars, and international readers. This paper will describe how the Smathers Libraries have worked with a corporate partner, BiblioLabs, to leverage online retailers’ discovery engines to promote print versions of ETDs while alerting readers to the free digital versions available in the IR@UF. This paper will also share how alumni, current graduate students, and other campus stakeholders have responded to the pilot of this new service. The Libraries are monitoring referred traffic to the IR and sales data. UF is the first university to contribute content to this effort, but we expect others to follow suit if the data supports the expectations of the University, the Libraries, and our graduates.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ani Eblighatian

The paper is an off-shoot of the author's PhD project on lamps from Roman Syria (at the University of Geneva in Switzerland), centered mainly on the collection preserved at the Art Museum of Princeton University in the United States. One of the outcomes of the research is a review of parallels from archaeological sites and museum collections and despite the incomplete documentation i most cases, much new insight could be gleaned, for the author's doctoral research and for other issues related to lychnological studies. The present paper collects the data on oil lamps from byzantine layers excavated in 1932–1939 at Antioch-on-the-Orontes and at sites in its vicinity (published only in part so far) and considers the finds in their archaeological context.


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