etd (electronic theses and dissertations)

The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition

2006-11-30T11:28:00.001-08:00

The Impact of Mandatory Policies on ETD Acquisition

This paper analyzes the data now available in Australia's coordinated Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) gateway to show the impact of high-level institutional policy decisions on population of the individual repositories. The paper shows that just like research article repositories, voluntary ETD deposition results in repositories collecting less than 12% of the available theses, whereas mandatory policies are well accepted and cause deposit rates to rise towards 100%. Modeling of the Ph.D. and Master process in Australia is also carried out to indicate the delays and liabilities to be expected if mandatory policies are applied only to newly enrolled candidates.

The institutional repository in the digital library

2006-11-30T11:18:00.001-08:00

Edinburgh Research Archive : Item 1842/858

Title: The institutional repository in the digital library
Authors: MacColl, John
Jones, Richard
Andrew, Theo
Date of Issue: 2006
Publisher: Chandos (Oxford) Publishing Ltd
Citation: Jones, Richard., Andrew, Theo. and MacColl, John. The Institutional Repository. Oxford: Chandos Publishing , 2006.
Abstract: We begin by looking at the concept of institutional repositories within the broader context of digital libraries. ‘Digital libraries’ can mean many things, but we consider them to be libraries first and foremost, and built upon the enduring principles of information management which have lain at the heart of the practice of librarianship for hundreds of years. We look also at the significance of the qualification which defines the scope of this book – the institutional repository. Libraries are themselves repositories, and have always dealt in the management of repositories for their users. With libraries now routinely managing repositories of various types in digital format, what does it mean to qualify ‘repository’ with ‘institutional’?
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/858
ISBN: 1843341387 (paperback)
1843341832 (hardback)
Item Type: Book Chapter
Appears in Collections: Digital Library Division

Case study: The Edinburgh Research Archive

2006-11-30T11:17:00.003-08:00

Edinburgh Research Archive : Item 1842/859

Title: Case study: The Edinburgh Research Archive
Authors: Jones, Richard
Andrew, Theo
MacColl, John
Date of Issue: 2006
Publisher: Chandos (Oxford) Publishing Ltd
Citation: Jones, Richard., Andrew, Theo. and MacColl, John. The Institutional Repository. Oxford: Chandos Publishing , 2006.
Abstract: This chapter discusses the many real-life issues encountered during the development process of a combined e-theses and e-print repository which ultimately became the Edinburgh Research Archive.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/859
ISBN: 1843341387 (paperback)
1843341832 (hardback)
Item Type: Book Chapter
Appears in Collections: Digital Library Division

Intellectual Property and Electronic Theses

2006-11-30T11:17:00.001-08:00

Edinburgh Research Archive : Item 1842/612

Title: Intellectual Property and Electronic Theses
Authors: Andrew, Theo
Date of Issue: 2004
Publisher: JISC Legal Information Services
Citation: Andrew, T. (2004). Intellectual Property and Electronic Theses. JISC Legal Publications.
Abstract: The role of this briefing paper is to raise awareness of the main issues involved when converting paper-based theses into a digital format. This change of media has many implications for the way theses are created, stored, organised, managed and accessed. This briefing paper specifically examines the agreements required by an institution when managing and storing theses in electronic format. This includes existing theses held by institutions in paper format and those presented by students electronically (born digital). These agreements typically involve those which may need to be obtained from the author, the institution or some other third party. A number of sample agreements are presented, which are intended to be adapted to suit an individual institution’s circumstances.
URI: http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/publications/ethesesandrew.htm
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/612
Item Type: Report
Appears in Collections: Digital Library Division

The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace

2006-11-30T11:16:00.003-08:00

Edinburgh Research Archive : Item 1842/632

Title: The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace
Authors: Jones, Richard
Date of Issue: 2004
Publisher: Ariadne
Citation: Jones, R. (2004) 'The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace', Ariadne, Issue 41
Abstract: The Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) [1] has been developed at Edinburgh University Library [2] to help provide an E-Thesis service within an institution using DSpace [3]. It has been developed as part of the Theses Alive! [4] Project under funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) [5], as part of the Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) [6] Programme. This article looks at DSpace, the repository system initially developed by Hewlett-Packard and MIT and subsequently made available as a community-owned package. We discuss how this community driven open-source development method can work when third-party tools such as the Tapir are also involved, and what issues arise. One of the primary objectives is to introduce the Tapir in detail, explaining what has been developed and what relevance this has to E-Theses. There is also a very brief introduction to the UK-recommended E-Theses Metadata set. As a use case, we will look at th...
URI: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue41/jones/
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/632
Item Type: Research Paper
Appears in Collections: Digital Library Division

Open access, open source and e-theses: the development of the Edinburgh Research Archive

2006-11-30T11:16:00.001-08:00

Edinburgh Research Archive : Item 1842/811

Title: Open access, open source and e-theses: the development of the Edinburgh Research Archive
Authors: Jones, Richard
Andrew, Theo
Date of Issue: 2005
Publisher: Emerald
Citation: Program, Volume 39. Issue 3. 2005. pp.198-212
Abstract: The Theses Alive project, conducted at Edinburgh University Library, aimed to produce an E-Theses repository with a view to providing a solution which may be appropriate for other UK higher education institutions to adopt. This paper examines some of the most interesting and involved areas of that project, including what open access and open source meant for it, and how the Edinburgh Research Archive, an institutional repository of E-Theses and E-Prints, grew out of it.
URI: DOI: 10.1108/00330330510610555
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/811
ISSN: 0033-0337
Item Type: Research Paper
Appears in Collections: Digital Library Division