Doctoral theses CERIF-CRIS or Repository?

Anne Asserson & Tor Øyvind Fosse, University of Bergen, Norway

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CRISTIN (Current Research Information System in Norway) one database for all research performing institutions that are publicly funded in Norway

CRISTIN could become a national portal of thesis if all institutions are recording them

Metadata in Frida/CRISTIN and link to (limited volume of) full text in the local OA repository

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Why CRISTIN?Overlap of publications in all categories in three sectores

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CRISTIN – dr.thesis 1949-2009 from UiB

Doctoral thesis together with publications are part of the

annual budgeting at the Norwegian research institutions.

Doctoral thesis are an important part of the institutional

Research output• Institutions have a special responsibility to promote thesis• Peer reviewed, but considered grey material• Combination of grey and white literature• Full text should be available

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60 years of Dr.thesis at UiB 1949-2009

1949 Egil Alvsaker

"A modified Waksman Procedure

and its Application to Soil Samples

from Western Norway"

1964 Flora MacDonald Hartveit,

M.B., Ch.B.

"Experimental Studies on the

Immune Response to Ehrlich's

Ascites Carcinoma”

The first female dr.thesis at the

University of Bergen.

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Doctoral Thesis at UiB

3200 thesis from 1949 to 2010

• Monographs• Collection of articles with an

introduction and 3-6 articleswhere some are published and some submitted

+

Within natural sciences and medicine these

include peerreviewed

articles ( 50%)

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Patent

Thesis

PROJECT

ORGUNITPERSON

Result_Publication

EquipmentBooks

articles

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Thesis record with outward links

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Data sets

CRISTIN

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Issues

• Doctoral thesis often stored in special repositories. Should be linked to person, organisation, event, facility, equipment and publications.

• In an Open Access repository the THESIS are made public available.

Should the articles embedded in the thesis also automatically be made publicly available?

• The full text is usually stored in a repository eg Dspace/Eprint or other.

Is this the best solution?