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Subject: Report on European
e-Theses Demonstrator project
For your information:
Leading the way with a European e-Theses demonstrator
project
Unique demonstration project in which 3 European
countries participated
The organisations JISC (UK), the National Library of
Sweden and the Dutch SURFfoundation carried out a demonstration project that
tested the interoperability of repositories for e-theses. The result is a
freely accessible European e-Theses portal providing access to over 10,000
doctoral theses.
The project followed the example that SURFfoundation set with the National
e-theses site, as part of DAREnet (www.DAREnet.nl/en).
For the first time ever, various local repositories containing doctoral
e-theses have been harvested on an international scale. Five countries were
involved in the project:
Doctoral theses contain some of the most current and
valuable research produced within universities. Still, they are underused as
research resources. Nowadays, theses and dissertations no longer have to gather
dust in attics or on the shelves of university libraries. By making them
available on the Internet, both the author and the university can showcase
their research, benefiting not only fellow scientists, but a broad public as
well. And when they are publicly available, they are used many times more often
than printed theses available only at libraries or by inter-library loan.
The result of this pilot project is described in the
report “A Portal for Doctoral e-theses in
Europe; Lessons Learned from a Demonstrator Project”. The report gives practical recommendations to improve the
interoperability between the service provider and the data supplier. The
recommendations are entirely in line with the guidelines of the DRIVER project
(www.driver-support.eu).
The report may be useful for institutions that wish to show the world the
results of their research. By making their material accessible in a
standardised manner and using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), they can reach beyond any boundary.
Download here:
• the Full Report (including Management Summary and Annex)
• the Management
Summary
• the Report
• the Annex
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