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Texas ETD Association 2011 Annual Conference March 31, 2011, Arlington, Texas

Assessing the Usage of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An overview of ETD Statistics and Metrics in the UNT Libraries. Daniel Gelaw Alemneh and Mark Edward Phillips University of North Texas Libraries. Texas ETD Association 2011 Annual Conference March 31, 2011, Arlington, Texas.

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Texas ETD Association 2011 Annual Conference March 31, 2011, Arlington, Texas

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  1. Assessing the Usage of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An overview of ETD Statistics and Metrics in the UNT Libraries Daniel Gelaw Alemneh and Mark Edward Phillips University of North Texas Libraries Texas ETD Association 2011 Annual ConferenceMarch 31, 2011, Arlington, Texas

  2. Background • UNT began accepting theses and dissertations in electronic format in 1999. • One of the first five American universities to require ETDs for graduation. • The UNT Libraries play active role in facilitating access to UNT’s ETD • In 2007 the Digital Projects Unit took on a stewardship role • Develop appropriate Metadata • value added services integrated into the ETDs • In 2010 started digital retrospective conversion project for pre-1999 theses and dissertations previously available only in paper form. • In-house project supported by the UNT Libraries TxETDA-2011

  3. UNT’s ETDs Size By Year/Semester By Degree Level By Access Level TxETDA-2011

  4. What makes up UNT’s ETDs? TxETDA-2011

  5. Access Levels of UNT’s ETDs • Public: - • These ETDs are open or there are no restrictions on these resources. • UNT-Community:- • These ETDs are restricted to users associated with the UNT. • Users are normally required to login using their EUID, if they are located outside UNT campus. • The restricted ETDs after 2007 have a delay (2-5 years) and then they will be moved to "Public" after the embargo period has passed.  • UNT-Strict:- • These ETDs are restricted to UNT Community. • This will be strictly enforced and users are always required to login using their EUIDs, regardless of their location. TxETDA-2011

  6. UNT ETDs Size By Access Level

  7. UNT ETDs Size By Access Level

  8. UNT ETDs by Year & Semester TxETDA-2011

  9. UNT ETDs by Language • English • French • Spanish TxETDA-2011

  10. Size By Degree Level TxETDA-2011

  11. UNT’s ETDs Access By Year/Semester By Degree Level By Access Level TxETDA-2011

  12. Access By Degree Level (2010)

  13. Access By Degree Level (2010)

  14. Access By Degree Level (2010) TxETDA-2011

  15. Overall Access Trends and Mechanisms By Country (Region, Cities…) By Mobile Devices By Referring Sites By Search Engines By Keywords By Committee Members Other Visualization Tools TxETDA-2011

  16. Overall Content Use (2010-11)

  17. Overall Use By Countries (215)

  18. Overall Use By (US) States (52 :-)

  19. Overall Use By (TX) Cities (837)

  20. Access via Mobile Devices (14 OS)

  21. Referring Sites (4000+)

  22. Search Engines (25)

  23. -Google sent 3,910 total visits via 3,518 keywords containing "dissertation"

  24. -Google sent 3,889 total visits via 3,334 keywords containing "thesis"

  25. Sample item viewed 25,000+ times 2010-11

  26. -Sample Dissertation (Daniel Gelaw Alemneh)

  27. -Committee Members Visualization

  28. Committee Members Visualization

  29. Subject Terms Visualization

  30. Summary • Today, more urgently than ever, researchers need ways to facilitate their research while at the same time promoting scholarly communication within and beyond their own domains. • Given the pressure of reading more in less time, today’s users demand access to various formats regardless of temporal and spatial restrictions and the types of devices used. • This poses challenges and presents opportunities to those who organize and provide access to digital resources. • Over the past year, the UNT Libraries have put forth great effort in making digital collections more accessible and useful in research processes. • The successful management of ETDs indeed, requires effort across the entire life-cycle to ensure that ETDs are managed, preserved, & made accessible in a manner that today’s users expect!

  31. Any Questions? Mark.Phillips@unt.edu Daniel.Alemneh@unt.edu and/or TxETDA-2011

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