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If anyone else had problems opening these links, I found the report at http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/DARLIN/2007-0803-222337/UUindex.html --- Les Carr On 10 Aug 2007, at 11:42, Westrienen, Gerard van wrote: > 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: Denmark, Germany, the > Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. > 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 > > > ********************************************************************** > * > Drs. Gerard M. van Westrienen > platformmanagement ICT and Research - SURFfoundation > Graadt van Roggenweg 340 > 3531 AH UTRECHT > P.O. Box 2290 > 3500 GG Utrecht > The Netherlands > W: www.surf.nl > T: +31 (0)30 2346640 > F: +31 (0)30 2332960 > E: [log in to unmask] > > SURFfoundation is the higher education and research > partnership organisation for network services and > information and communication technology in the Netherlands. > ********************************************************************** > ** >