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ETD 2008 Innovations

ETD 2008 Innovations. Ensuring Discovery of ETD’s: The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and ProQuest/UMI Case Study Corrie Marsh, AUL HKUST Austin McLean, SCDP Director, ProQuest. HKUST built 1989-90 THES ranked 53 worldwide 2007. Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

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ETD 2008 Innovations

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  1. ETD 2008Innovations Ensuring Discovery of ETD’s: The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and ProQuest/UMI Case Study Corrie Marsh, AUL HKUST Austin McLean, SCDP Director, ProQuest

  2. HKUST built 1989-90 THES ranked 53 worldwide 2007 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology • First Hong Kong Thesis Repository • Full student support for theses processing • Dissertations published by Proquest ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

  3. ProQuest UMI Mission • To serve the scholarly interests of graduate students as they embark on their chosen career • By entering and maintaining the dissertation or thesis in the scholarly record • By disseminating the citation and abstract and making copies available according to the author’s choices for access and distribution • To help the university meet its mission • By maintaining a non-local repository of all the institution’s graduate work • By maintaining a complete record of the institution’s graduate productivity ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

  4. ProQuest UMI Database • Includes dissertations and master’s theses in the • digital repository and database, PQDT, as well as • the microform archive PQDT = ProQuest Dissertations and Theses • Holds more than 2.5 million citations • Going back to the 1800’s • Representing all scholarly and creative disciplines • ~ 1 million full-text dissertations in PDF • More than 3,000 libraries worldwide subscribe to PQDT ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

  5. Challenges for ETD Submission Library financial and technical support for submitting dissertations to Proquest Access Services receives ETDs, marks-up abstract and submits to institutional repository and cataloging Need: simplified ProQuest system - not student submission ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

  6. Testing for ETD Submission • Document Type Definition (DTD) for dissertation metadata (alternative to standard metadata schema) • Testing XML metadata to FTP UMI-XML files • Fine-tune data elements for populating advisor names, and country, degree, language, and postal codes • Provide access to ProQuest specialists for password protected PDF’s ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

  7. Solution for ETD SubmissionUMI-XML DTD for dissertation metadata ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

  8. Solution for ETD Submission • Capture PDF and XML metadata for transfer of FTP zip • file to Proquest • Proquest uploads files to dissertation publishing and provides Library batch invoicing for publishing fees • Hands-off technical solution for full-end user support ETD 2008 : Ensuring Discovery of ETDs

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