Theses and Dissertations Gain Visibility and Context through SHARE | SHARE

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-12-20

Summary:

"There has been a lively discussion on the American Library Association SCHOLCOMM Discussion List in the the past few weeks about how higher education institutions are handling electronic deposit of theses and dissertations—namely, whether graduating students are required to submit their completed work to ProQuest or the university institutional repository, or are given choices. Central to these discussions on campus, and in the library community, is the university’s responsibility to archive its graduate student work, the accessibility of the work, and its discoverability. We are gratified to see a trend toward the institutional repository as the entity universities are naming to collect, preserve, and provide access to university work, including graduate student work. As Clifford Lynch of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) notes, 'Today there is new interest in scholarly communications—including theses and dissertations—that integrate multimedia, data, interactivity, and similar components. This pushes the boundaries of traditional scholarly communication genres, and is a development long overdue and important to encourage. But just as with other efforts pushing the boundaries, these new, genuinely digital, theses and dissertations may be challenging to curate and preserve. To me it seems best to keep these close to home, in institutional repositories, where the supporting institutions can develop specialized approaches to respond to innovation in their own scholarship, and engage hard but critically important problems of curation and preservation.' At the Association of Research Libraries, SHARE is aggregating metadata about research activity across the life cycle from institutional, disciplinary, and other digital repositories. In a free, open data set like SHARE, theses and dissertations in institutional repositories can be linked to subsequent work by early career scholars, and to networks of mentors and collaborators ..."

Link:

http://www.share-research.org/2015/12/theses-and-dissertations-gain-visibility-and-context-through-share/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.ir oa.repository.disciplinary oa.green oa.etds oa.share oa.metadata oa.aggregating oa.preservation oa.repositories

Date tagged:

12/20/2015, 08:54

Date published:

12/20/2015, 03:54