1 / 49

Global Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Explore the global impact and importance of ETDs in enhancing graduate education, improving access to research, and promoting digital libraries. Learn about the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and its role in facilitating worldwide collaboration.

tiaraj
Download Presentation

Global Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. CNI Spring MeetingWashington, D.C.5 April 2005The Global Reach of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Edward A. Fox, fox@vt.edu Digital Library Research Laboratory, Dept. of CS Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA http://fox.cs.vt.edu/talks/2005/ http://fox.cs.vt.edu

  2. Acknowledgements: Support • Selected Sponsors: Adobe, AOL, CAPES, CNI, CONACyT, DFG, IBM, Microsoft, NDLTD, NSF (IIS-9986089, 0086227, 0080748, 0325579; ITR-0325579; DUE-0121679, 0136690, 0121741, 0333601), OCLC, SOLINET, SUN, SURA, UNESCO, US Dept. Ed. (FIPSE), VTLS

  3. Outline • Introduction, Context • Electronic Theses and Dissertations • ETD Support and Services • NDLTD • Institutional Repositories • Research

  4. Information Life Cycle Creation Active Authoring Modifying Social Context Using Creating Organizing Indexing Retention / Mining Accessing Filtering Storing Retrieving Semi- Active Utilization Distributing Networking Inactive Searching

  5. What are we doing? • Aiding universities to enhance graduate education, publishing and IPR efforts • Helping improve the availability and content of theses and dissertations • Educating ALL future scholars so they can publish electronically and effectively use digital libraries (i.e., are Information Literate and can be more expressive)

  6. Library Goals • Improve library services • Better turn-around time • Always available • Reduce work • catalog from e-text • eliminate handling: mailing to ProQuest, bindery prep, check-out, check-in, reshelving, etc. • Save space

  7. Domain: graduate education, research Genre:ETDs=electronic theses & dissertations Submission: http://etd.vt.edu Collection: http://www.theses.org Project: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD) http://www.ndltd.org A Digital Library Case Study

  8. NDLTD: How can a university get involved? • Select planning/implementation team • Graduate School • Library • Computing / Information Technology • Institutional Research / Educ. Tech. • Join online, give us contact names • www.ndltd.org/join • Adapt Virginia Tech or other proven approach • Build interest and consensus • Start trial / allow optional submission

  9. Student Gets Committee Signatures and Submits ETD Signed Grad School Approval form

  10. Library Catalogs ETD, Access is Opened to the New Research WWW NDLTD Digital library access control

  11. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-2227102539751141/http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-2227102539751141/

  12. ETD Union Collection (OAI)

  13. Union catalog: OCLC • OCLC will expand OAI data provider on TDs. • Is getting data from WorldCat (so, from many sites!). • Will harvest from all others who contact them. • Need DC and either ETD-MS or MARC. • Has a set for ETDs.

  14. OCLC SRU Interface

  15. ETD-2 ETD-4 Video ETD-3 Image Program Program Video Image 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 ETD-1 Document Document 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 1010100101010010101010010101010101010101 Example Open Digital Library ODLRecent USER INTERFACE Recent PMH ODLUnion Filter PMH ODLUnion Union Browse PMH ODLBrowse PMH ODLUnion Filter PMH Search ODLSearch ETD DL for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (www.ndltd.org) Students and researchers ETD collections

  16. ETD Union Search Mirror Site in China (CALIS)(http://ndltd.calis.edu.cn – popular site!)

  17. VTLS Union CatalogContent Languages • The VTLS NDLTD Union Catalog has data in 6 different languages. These are: • English • German • Greek • Korean • Portuguese • Spanish • Examples follow

  18. Language = German; hits = 137

  19. Full record display

  20. UNESCO and ETDs(by Axel Plathe at ETD2003) • Promoting the use of the Internet as a tool for disseminating scientific knowledge • Facilitating the transfer of ETD expertise from developed to developing countries • 1998: Member of the NDLTD Steering Committee • 1999: First UNESCO ETD meeting on ETD internationalisation • 2002: “UNESCO Guide to Electronic Theses and Dissertations” • 2003: Model training programmes and training courses • 2003: Sponsor pilot projects • 2003: Pilot projects (Africa, Europe, Latin-America)

  21. NDLTD Incorporation • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations incorporated May 20, 2003 in Virginia, USA • Charitable and educational purposes (501 c 3) • Officers • Executive Director (Ed Fox) • Secretary (Gail McMillan) • Treasurer (Scott Eldredge)

  22. Suzie Allard (ETD 2004, U. Kentucky) Denise A. D. Bedford (World Bank) Julia C. Blixrud (ARL, SPARC) José Luis Borbinha (Natl Lib Portugal) Alex Byrne (ETD 2005, ADT: Australia) Tony Cargnelutti (ETD 2005, Australia) Vinod Chachra (VTLS) Susan Copeland (RGU, UK) Jude Edminster (Bowling Green St. U.) Scott Eldredge (Treasurer, ETD 2002, BYU) Edward A. Fox (Exec Director,Virginia Tech) John H. Hagen (West Virginia U.) Thomas B. Hickey (OCLC) Christine Jewell (U. Waterloo, Canada) Delphine Lewis (ProQuest) Joan K. Lippincott (CNI) Mike Looney (Adobe) Gail McMillan (Secretary, Virginia Tech) Joseph Moxley (ETD 2000, USF) Eva Müller (U. Uppsala, Sweden) Ana Pavani (PUC Rio, Brazil) Axel Plathe (UNESCO, Paris) Sharon Reeves (National Library Canada) Peter Schirmbacher (ETD 2003, Humboldt) Hussein Suleman (U.Cape Town, S. Africa) Shalini R. Urs (U. Mysore, India) Eric F. Van de Velde (ETD 2001, Caltech) Board of Directors

  23. Awards (John Hagen) Conferences (Tony Cargnelutti) Development (Peter Schirmbacher) Executive (Edward Fox) Finance (Scott Eldredge) Implementation (Ana Pavani) Membership (Shalini Urs) Nominating (Sharon Reeves) Standards (Thomas B. Hickey) Union Catalog (Vinod Chachra) NDLTD Committees (Chairs)

  24. Australia (ADT) Brazil (BDT, IBICT) Canada Catalunya Chile (Cybertesis) Germany India (Vidyanidhi) Korea OhioLINK: 79 colleges/univs Portugal (National Library) South Africa UK (British Library, JISC, Edinburgh, …) UNESCO (especially Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa) Venezuela Selected Projects / Sponsors

  25. Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China, Hong Kong Columbia Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Jamaica Korea Lithuania Malaysia Mexico Namibia Netherlands Norway Poland Russia Singapore S. Africa S. Korea Spain Sudan Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Turkey UK USA Venezuela Yugoslavia Some Countries

  26. Some Institutional Members • British Library • Cinemedia • Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) • Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) • Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya • Diplomica.com • Dissertation.com • Dissertationen Online (Germany) • ETDweb, a Division of Answer4.com • Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC) • National Documentation Centre (NDC), Greece • National Library of Portugal (for all universities) • OCLC Online Computer Library Center • OhioLINK • Organization of American States (SEDI/OAS) • Southeastern Library Network (SOLINET) • UNESCO (www.unesco.org/webworld/etd)

  27. Why ETD? Short Answer • For Students: • Gain knowledge and skills for the Information Age • Richer communication (digital information, multimedia, …) • For Universities: • Easy way to enter the digital library field and benefit thereby • For the World: • Global digital library – large, useful, many services • General: • Save time and money • Increased visibility for all associated with research results

  28. Institutional Repositories - 1 • “Institutional repositories are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single university or a multiple institution community of colleges and universities.” • Crow, R. “Institutional repository checklist and resource guide”, SPARC, Washington, D.C., USA • www.arl.org/sparc/IR/IR_Guide_v1.pdf

  29. Institutional Repositories - 2 • “A university-based institutional repository is a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.” • Lynch, C.A. In ARL Bimonthly Report 226, pp. 1-7, Feb. 2003, www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html

  30. What is a Digital Object Repository? • Also called: digital rep., digital asset rep., institutional repository • Stores and maintains digital objects (assets) • Provides external interface for Digital Objects • Creation, Modification, Access • Enforces access policies • Provides for content type disseminations Adapted from Slide by V. Chachra, VTLS

  31. Goals of Institutional Repositories (by Steven Harnad, U. Southampton) • Self Archiving of Institutional Research • Thesis and Dissertations (VTLS NDLTD Project) • Article preprints and post prints • Internal documents and maps • Management of digital collections • Preservation of materials – decentralized approach • Housing of teaching materials • Electronic Publishing of journals, books, posters, maps, audio, video and other multimedia objects Adapted from Slide by V. Chachra, VTLS

  32. Research: Connect w. LOCKSS • Lots of copies keep stuff safe • Stanford (Vicky Reich) • Initial focus on lower levels • Initial content: journals • Emory (Martin Halbert) • Help deploy and adapt • Help apply in other contexts • Another registry • Set of publisher manifests (information providers) • Set of storage systems (archival storage) • Helping us explore connection with ETDs

  33. Other Research:Cluster NDLTD-Computing

  34. Summary • Introduction, Context • Electronic Theses and Dissertations • ETD Support and Services • NDLTD • Institutional Repositories • Research

More Related