Theses and Dissertations Digital Library: Ten years of Open Access and Open Archives in Brazil

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Towards storage and access of electronic theses: A proposal of its organisation for the Consortium of Catalan Libraries

Els objectius d'aquest informe són realitzar un estudi de la tècnica en la digitalització, l'emmagatzematge i l'accés a les tesis doctorals electròniques, per tal de fer una proposta d’organització al Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya (CBUC). Actualment, tot i que existeixen diverses iniciatives a Europa, és als EUA on la digitalització de tesis doctorals s’ha desenvolupat més amb la creació de la Networked Digital Library for Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD), i ha estat qui ha definit els estàndards en aquest camp. En el següent informe es planteja i es recomana al CBUC l’adhesió institucional a l’NDLTD per poder gaudir de la seva experiència.

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

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.

Molecular immunology databases and data repositories

Over recent years databases have become an extremely important resource for biomedical research. Immunology research is increasingly dependent on access to extensive biological databases to extract existing information, plan experiments, and analyse experimental results. This review describes 15 immunological databases that have appeared over the last 30 years. In addition, important issues regarding database design and the potential for misuse of information contained within these databases are discussed. Access pointers are provided for the major immunological databases and also for a number of other immunological resources accessible over the World Wide Web (WWW). (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Sharing data between LSDBs and central repositories.

Several Locus-Specific DataBases (LSDBs) have recently been approached by larger, more general data repositories (including NCBI and UCSC) with the request to share the DNA variant data they have collected. Within the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS) a document was generated summarizing the issues related to these requests. The document has been circulated in the HGVS/LSDB community and was discussed extensively. Here we summarize these discussions and present the concluded recommendations for LSDB data sharing with central repositories.

Audio and Video Repositories at Scale: Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Packaging Content for Aggregated and Federated Repositories through APTrust

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Electronic theses and dissertations at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech has been depositing e-theses for over a decade and is a leader in the field. University of Southampton introduced e-thesis deposit in the academic session 2008-09

Entrevista radiofónica sobre la incorporación de las tesis de Acceda en Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

Entrevista realizada a María del Carmen Martín Marichal, directora de la Biblioteca Universitaria de la ULPGC, por la periodista Teresa Cárdenes en el programa de radio Teresa a las 8. La entrevista versa sobre la incorporación de las tesis de Acceda en Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD), también sobre los distintos servicios qu se ofrecen a los usuarios de la Biblioteca.

Open Access and Digital Repositories

Funded by the Library and the Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Digital Repository @ Iowa State University is a service for Iowa State's faculty, students and staff to manage, preserve and provide access to their scholarship. This presentation provides an overview of open access and introduces the repository to the Library Liaisons.

Issues and innovations in electronic theses and dissertations /

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Theses and dissertations accepted for higher degrees.

Vols. for 1937-44 combined in one issue.