Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations ETD2003 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 20.05.2003 - 24.05.2003): Recent submissions
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungFrom DATAD to ETDs : the Way Forward The number of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in Africa is increasing albeit slowly. The majority of initiatives in this arena are in South Africa but there are efforts to get institutions in other countries ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungAkademisk forskning online - Academic Research in Sweden Online A pilot study of an OAI compliant portalAn increasing number of universities in Sweden make their university research results available in electronic form. Technical solutions for electronic publishing are different, but the aim is the same - to facilitate the ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungETD Initiative of the University of the Free State, South Africa: A Roadmap Roadmapping University of the Free State ETD InitiativeThe University of the Free State library like all the university libraries have been reinventing itself to meet the needs of the faculties and students. It has to respond to new educational models, changing modes of teaching, ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungCommunity Tales: An Infrastructure for the Collaborative Construction of Digital Theses Repositories "Tales" (pronounced tä'lez in Spanish) is the codename for the ongoing project in charge of the construction of the digital theses collection and associated services at Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (UDLA). UDLA is ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungSome Considerations on Training ETD Teams in Developing Countries An ETD project requires various skills, besides the interaction of different groups of the university. Among the skills, a very important one is the knowledge about digital libraries - from metadata element sets to the ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungREVOLUTIONARY STEPS IN MOLDOVA IN THE FIELD OF ETD Toward the end of 2002, the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM) made its first steps in the field of Electronic Theses & Dissertations. A team working on the development of a web-based information portal for ASM ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungThe transition of CyberThèses to Open Source CyberThèses is a platform for the archiving and dissemination of electronic theses and dissertations built on the use of structured document (initially SGML). An important step has been crossed with the evolution of the ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungPolitical, institutional and library stakes of ETD dissemination: the French-speaking Swiss experience. The experiment of the University of Geneva around electronically structured theses - in the frame of the "Cyberthèses" programm - has been scattered in the other universities of the French-speaking part of Switzerland, ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungTo Restrict or Not to Restrict Access: The PhD Candidate's Intellectual Property Dilemma The NDLTD software allows submitting PhD candidates to restrict or withhold access to their thesis or portions of their theses. At the same time there is increasing agitation within the research and library communities ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungThe Miguel de Cervantes DL's Digital Thesis Program Ph.D. theses are a fundamental pillar for the application and development of knowledge. Generally, Ph.D. theses have a very limited reach. Their printed publication is rarely viable in a massive way. Often, only a partial ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungThe Digital Dissertations and Theses in the Russian State Library The report describes the digital library of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) supported by the Russian Fundation for Basic Research and developed by the RSL. The digital library of ETDs contains: (1) the OPAC ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungSumming up
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungUsing XML for long-term preservation Experiences from the DiVA projectOne of the objectives of the project is to explore the possibility of using XML as a format for long-term preservation. For this reason, we evaluated the practical use of XML in different parts of the system before deciding ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungAn ETD Submission System for the UK Theses Alive! is one of the projects funded by JISC within the FAIR Programme. Theses Alive! is taking a practical route, by developing ETD submission software customised for use by UK HE institutions, and piloting that ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungA Device for Automated Scanning of Books Fast access to older theses and dissertations is still difficult, because they are often available only in printed form. If in digital form, content of these books could be available more easily. However, scanning of bounded ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungUPeTD: It's the start of your publishing career The role of electronic theses to jumpstart scholarly communication is discussed in the context of a first world university in a developing country. In the developing world the context within which new initiatives are taken ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungThe Theses Canada Online Portal at the National Library of Canada Theses Canada, a service of the National Library of Canada, has coordinated a centralized theses program for Canadian universities since 1965. Our mission has been to acquire and preserve a comprehensive collection of ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungCollaboration and ETDs: Institutional and International Strategies Developing collaborative projects requires focused goals and a process that encourages participation and takes advantage of each parties' skills. In this session, the presenter will describe some principles of successful ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungRetrospective Conversion of Theses and Dissertations While many universities have been moving forward with their efforts to support the submission of ETDs, a smaller number have made attempts to mine the huge store of traditional print theses and dissertation by converting ...
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2003-05-24KonferenzveröffentlichungLong-term preservation of ETDs in Algeria: discussion through the CERIST Deposit system In Algeria, and according to an official decree issued in August 2000 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, an electronic copy of every Master's and PhD thesis defended in every academic institution ...
