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The DART-Europe E-theses Portal and ETDs from the Czech Republic
Martin MoyleDigital Curation Manager UCL Library Services, UK
4th Seminar on Accessing ETDs, Brno University of Technology, 21 October 2009
Contents
• DART-Europe: background• DART-Europe E-theses Portal
– overview– usage and feedback– benefits– how to contribute
DART-Europe: background
• Began in 2005 • Supporting the management, discoverability, re-
usability and preservation of Europe’s electronic research theses
• Working primarily with consortia and national libraries• Governed by Board of partners; resourced through
partner contributions• European Working Group of the NDLTD• Working closely with LIBER
The DART-Europe E-theses Portal
• A discovery service for open access, research-level electronic theses
• User focused• Easy for contributors to supply metadata• Low maintenance
Open access e-theses: why?
• Make the very latest research available to others• Highlight the work of early-career researchers• Showcase research groups and universities
– increase the impact of academic institutions– stimulate academic and industrial collaborations
• Public visibility helps to detect (and discourage) plagiarism
• Can include supplementary data sets,
models, multimedia, etc.
Impact of open access e-theses
• Two examples from the UCL Eprints repository:– Thomson, Catherine Claire (2003)
Danmarkshistorier: National imagination and novel in late twentieth-century Denmark
– 1309 downloads since January 2008– Wang, H. (2009)
New strategies for low noise, agile PLL frequency synthesis
– 214 downloads since deposit, June 2009
• Open access e-theses showcase your researchers and your institution
• The DART-Europe Portal helps to increase
this exposure
Aggregator
OAI-PMH HARVESTER
STANDARDISATION
User Interface
Local and national e-theses platforms
Consortial repositories Institutional repositories National repositories
Metadata harvesting
Researchers
http://www.dart-europe.eu
Metadata Metadata Metadata
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
Portal architecture: overview
DART-Europe E-theses Portal: facts and figures
As of 10 October 2009:
• 117,045 theses• 195 Universities• 15 European countries • ~80 new e-theses added daily
Simple search
Awarding University
Click a title to see full record…
Consortia and other providers are also credited
Link tosource record..
Search author, title, abstract, all
Various ways to limit search
Various browsing options...
Create marked lists for download
Search history
View new records
New records also via RSS feed
Feedback form
Portal usage
• Usage is gradually increasing...
• Last 6 months:
• 46,423 visits
• 40,676 visitors
• from 172 countries
Recent feedback
• Congratulations to all staff that operate the site (Brazil)• I must say that I really appreciate this projet, it is very nice
to be able to have access to so many documents. (France)• I'm a librarian from Thailand...It's very very useful for my
users. Thank you very much for everything from your site. (Thailand)
• I would like to ask you if it is possible for me to added my thesis on the website of European eThesis.
I just finished my university. (Slovakia)
DART-Europe Portal: benefits
• For contributors– raised visibility for Universities and consortia– low-cost participation
• For authors– added exposure for work– helps to introduce early-career academics to open
access and to copyright issues
• For researchers– aggregation aids discovery: benefits of
quantity, convenience, consistency– discovery leads straight to delivery
Portal: contributing countries
• Belgium• Estonia• Finland• France• Germany• Hungary• Ireland• Lithuania
• Netherlands• Norway• Portugal• Spain• Sweden• Switzerland• UK
Work in progress
with:• Austria• Denmark• Greece• Italy
How to contribute
• OAI-PMH is used• Metadata is collected in simple Dublin Core• DART-Europe needs:
– OAI Base URL– OAI set(s), if necessary, to identify theses that are
• open access• doctoral or research masters level
• DART can harvest direct from Universities• Or from theses.cz, if possible...
Aggregator
OAI-PMH HARVESTER
STANDARDISATION
User Interface
Czech Republic e-theses platforms
Theses.cz Institutional repositoriesMetadata harvesting
Researchers
http://www.dart-europe.eu
Metadata Metadata
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
Metadata
Harvesting models (1)(2)
Could restrictOAI-PMH access to DART-Europe IP, if needed
Summary
• Portal is simple, but a useful discovery tool• It is good for researchers and good for research• Participation is very simple• Participation helps to showcase the work of
researchers, Universities, and consortia• How can DART-Europe best work with the Czech
Republic Universities?
Further information
• Portal– http://www.dart-europe.eu
• DART-Europe– http://www.dart-europe.eu/About
• Email– [email protected]
• Thank you