Adding Value to Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories

Schopfel, Joachim

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1045/march2013-schopfe

Title :

Adding Value to Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Institutional Repositories

Author(s) :

Schopfel, Joachim [Auteur]

Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]

Journal title :

D-Lib Magazine

Pages :

n/a

Publisher :

Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Publication date :

2013

ISSN :

1082-9873

English keyword(s) :

electronic theses and dissertations
open access
open archives
institutional repositories

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication

English abstract : [en]

Part of the grey literature, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) represent a growing segment of open, available content in institutional repositories (IR) where they contribute to the impact and ranking of their ...
Show more >Part of the grey literature, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) represent a growing segment of open, available content in institutional repositories (IR) where they contribute to the impact and ranking of their institution. More than half of all IRs listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories contain ETDs. Most of these open access projects have similarities and common features, such as access to full text and compliance with the OAI metadata harvesting protocol. But more important are the differences, with regard to metadata, policy, access restrictions, representativeness, file format, status, quality and related services. In this paper, we investigate what can be done to improve the quality of content and service provision in an open environment, in order to increase impact, traffic and usage. Based on a review of 54 recent communications and articles on PhD theses in institutional repositories, this paper shows five ways in which institutions can add value to the deposit and dissemination of electronic theses and dissertations and describes two developments that are challenging institutional repositories.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

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Source :

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