The DARTEurope Etheses Portal and ETDs from the

The DART-Europe E-theses Portal and ETDs from the Czech Republic Martin Moyle Digital Curation Manager UCL Library Services, UK m. moyle@ucl. ac. uk 4 th 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, reusability 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, researchlevel 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

Portal architecture: overview Local and national e -theses platforms Metadata harvesting Consortial repositories Institutional repositories National repositories Metadata Aggregator OAI-PMH HARVESTER STANDARDISATION DART-Europe Etheses Portal Researchers User Interface http: //www. dart-europe. eu

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 to source record. .

Search author, title, abstract, all Various ways to limit search

Various browsing options. . .

Create marked lists for download

Search history New records also via RSS feed View new records 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 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 e. Thesis. 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. . .

Harvesting models (2) (1) Czech Republic e-theses platforms Could restrict OAI-PMH access to DART-Europe IP, if needed Metadata Institutional repositories Theses. cz Metadata harvesting Metadata Aggregator OAI-PMH HARVESTER STANDARDISATION DART-Europe Etheses Portal Researchers User Interface http: //www. dart-europe. eu

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 – m. moyle@ucl. ac. uk • Thank you