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ETD: doing it together. LluÃs M. Anglada Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) ETD 2003 Berlin, May 22nd, 2003. Current situation. TDX is a service that gathers ETDs from Catalan universities TDX is an organization involving 14 participant institutions 11 universities
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ETD: doing it together Lluís M. Anglada Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) ETD 2003 Berlin, May 22nd, 2003
Current situation • TDX is a service that gathers ETDs from Catalan universities • TDX is an organization involving 14 participant institutions • 11 universities • 2 consortia (supercomputing and libraries) • 1 ‘national’ library
Catalonia • Autonomous region of Spain, • 6,000,000 inhabitants, • Own language (Catalan), • University system of 8 public universities and 3 private ones, • University community of 172.000 students, 13.000 teaching staff and 6.000 administr. staff • National Library (Biblioteca de Catalunya).
TDX: evolution • 1999: reports and early works, NDLTD membership • 2000 Oct.: server set up • 2001 Feb.: first ETD • 2002 Feb.: • 8 universities • 429 ETDs • 2003 May: • 11 universities • Nearly 1.000 ETDs
Our organizational model E-doctoral thesis (several formats) E-doctoral thesis (PDF) Database Student 7 6 5 1 Student’s responsability University’s responsability CBUC/CESCA’s Responsability
TDX: agents’ roles • Universities • Collect and edit ETDs • CESCA (supercomputing center) • Server and software maintenance • CBUC (library consortium) • Coordination and promotion • Biblioteca de Catalunya (national library) • Preservation issues
TDX: initial objectives • Putting content on the Internet • Strengthening libraries’ role in scholarly communication processes • Doing it inside an international project (NDLTD)
TDX: first steps • 1999: State-of-the-art report • 2000: • Legal report • Project and governmental funding • Agreement universities-CESCA-CBUC • Preparing the software: common interface
2000: main problems • Disagreement at universities between different departments • Lack of information for the main players: the authors • Lots of “good” reasons to change not the current status quo
Solutions: doing it together • Complementariness • ‘Globalitzation’ • Promotion • Emulation
Complementariness • Common TDX Intranet built from participant universities’ information • In order to: • Share procedures • Share forms • Share contracts • Share promotion tools • Dispel uncertainties
‘Globalization’ • ETDs as one more aspect about content digitization • Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya (Digital Library of Catalonia) • Union catalogue • Databases, e-journals, e-books • e-TOC’s database • TDX • ...
Some results • requested theses, by university of origin • submited/requested • submited theses, by subject • Access by country
Current facilities • Global search • Links to ETDs from the union catalogue (CCUC) • Browsing by subject • In compliance with OAI standards (available next month)
The future • Extending TDX to the rest of Catalan universities • Including all (or nearly all) current theses in TDX • Promoting TDX as the embryo of an institutional repository for Catalan universities • Including (some) old (print) theses and dissertations
Thanks for your attention • langlada@cbuc.es • Info@tdx.es • http://www.cbuc.es • http://www.tdx.cesca.es