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The DART-Europe E-theses Portal

The DART-Europe E-theses Portal. Martin Moyle Digital Curation Manager UCL Library Services, UK m.moyle@ucl.ac.uk Rybalkina Elena Department on International Scientific and Educational Management Tomsk Polytechnical University, Russia rybalkina@cc.tpu.edu.ru.

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The DART-Europe E-theses Portal

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  1. The DART-Europe E-theses Portal Martin MoyleDigital Curation Manager UCL Library Services, UKm.moyle@ucl.ac.uk Rybalkina Elena Department on International Scientific and Educational Management Tomsk Polytechnical University, Russia rybalkina@cc.tpu.edu.ru The 1st Forum of Young Scientists of Siberian Federal District, Tomsk, Russia, 29 November-2 December 2009

  2. Contents • DART-Europe: background • The DART-Europe E-theses Portal • overview • issues • benefits • next steps

  3. DART-Europe: background • Began in 2005 • Supporting the management, discoverability, re-usability and preservation of Europe’s electronic research theses • Resourced through partner contributions • Governed by Board of partners • Working closely with LIBER

  4. Partnership • Partners are university consortia, universities, or national libraries • Must sign Partnership Agreement (no financial obligations!) • DART-Europe has partners in: • Belgium • Estonia • Finland • Germany • Hungary • Ireland • Norway • Portugal • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • UK

  5. DART-Europe: 7 work themes • Partnership • Advocacy and best practice • Digital preservation • Marketing and dissemination • Sustainability • Community building; and... • Portal

  6. The DART-Europe E-theses Portal • Provides researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) • Access to ~120,000 full-text research theses from 15 European countries, ~200 Universities (November 2009) • Easy for contributors to supply material • High search engine rankings other sources • Updated daily (~80 new records/day)

  7. Open Access e-theses and dissertations (ETDs): • full-text electronic copies of theses produced by research postgraduates from the University and stored in digital archives / institutional repositories • Variety of forms see www.dart-europe.eu/guide/etheses/ Why make an e-thesis Open Access? • important information resource • increase world-wide interest

  8. The DART-Europe Portal: benefits for researchers • Exposure of valuable work • Helps to identify career opportunities • Helps build networks of researchers with similar academic interests • Raises visibility of the University • Acts as showcase for the University’s research activity

  9. Institutional Repository Consortial/ National Repository Institutional Repository DART aggregation: overview + Consortial/ National Repository + Metadata Metadata E-thesis Metadata Metadata Metadata + Metadata Aggregator Collection (OAI-PMH) Crosswalks HARVESTING Clean-up User Interface Enrichment Accented characters POST-PROCESSING SEARCH Indexes BROWSE Storage RESULTS DATA MANAGEMENT

  10. Portal home – http://www.dart-europe.eu Simple search… View new records (also via RSS)

  11. Results: brief Click title to see full record…

  12. Results: full Record is displayed exactly as supplied Link to source record..

  13. Advanced search Search author, title, abstract, subject / all Limit search...

  14. Browse

  15. Other features… Search history Help page and feedback form Mark records for download

  16. Portal: contributing countries Work in progress with: • Austria • Denmark • Greece • Italy • Poland • Netherlands • Norway • Portugal • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • UK • Belgium • Estonia • Finland • France • Germany • Hungary • Ireland • Lithuania

  17. Portal usage • Usage is gradually increasing... • Last 6 months: • 46,423 visits • 40,676 visitors • from 172 countries

  18. Building the DART Portal: principles • Low maintenance • User focus • Low barriers to participation

  19. Participation: minimum requirements • OAI set to identify open access research theses • OAI Dublin Core metadata • Essential: author, title, date (of award), identifier (http, ideally a link to local ‘splash page’) • Recommended: awarding institution (preferably publisher) • Desirable: abstract, subjects, language

  20. Dublin Core for a collaborative service (1) • Invites problems of consistency • Realistic to expect repositories to standardise? • contributing organisations have higher priorities, different technical skill sets… • acquiring content was seen to be more important • Some central processing work required • especially languages, dates, awarding institutions • brief illustrations...

  21. Using Dublin Core for a collaborative service (2) • Largely achievable, provided that source repositories are consistent in their inconsistencies! • Basic author, title, date, hyperlink are always offered in the Portal • Other fields are treated pragmatically • if information is not present, or cannot be used, it is ignored

  22. Portal: benefits • For contributing consortia and universities • raised visibility • low-cost participation • For authors • added exposure for work • helps to introduce career-young academics to OA • For researchers • aggregation: quantity, convenience, consistency • OA means ready availability of theses

  23. Portal: next steps • Marketing • what effects on usage - and on performance? • Current features have a ‘traditional’ feel • multilingual thesaurus; full text extraction; faceted search...what do researchers expect? What do they need? What effect on costs? • Wider European context • DART-Europe as specialist aggregator for larger services, such as Europeana?

  24. DART-Europe E-theses Portal: summary • Finding a balance between ease of contribution, complexity of intervention, and richness of service • Currently… • Easy for repositories to participate • Portal has a credible body of content • Post-processing routines are low maintenance and effective • Portal provides a useful service to contributors and to researchers • Good for researchers, good for research

  25. Further information • Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu • DART-Europe http://www.dart-europe.eu/About • Tomsk Polytechnic University http://www.tpu.ru • Email • m.moyle@ucl.ac.uk • rybalkina@cc.tpu.edu.ru Thank you!

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