Creation of an online catalog of dissertations using Access & ASP

Abstract

The Fielding Graduate Institute is a small, private, non-profit graduate education institution that has not joined the NDLTD movement ... yet. To supplement the database (and availability) of its graduates' dissertations through ProQuest's 'Digital Dissertations' product, Fielding has created a publicly accessible catalog (at http://www.fielding.edu/library/dissertations/) using readily available tools, namely Microsoft Access and Active Server Pages (ASP), extracting the relevant data from the institution's Datatel Colleague-based ERP system. This presentation describes how the project was carried out, and plans to link from the catalog directly to 'Digital Dissertations' for each dissertation record.