Electronic Theses and Dissertations at Virginia Tech弗吉尼亚理工大学电子学位论文.pptVIP

Electronic Theses and Dissertations An American Perspective Gail McMillan gailmac@ Digital Library and Archives Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University What is the situation? Most of the basic research and substantial applied research in the U.S. is done in our universities. Primary sources for this research Dissertations Derivative publications Theses and dissertations Underutilized Inaccessible What are we doing? Computer-based technology Content Availability Educating future scholars Publish electronically Effectively use digital libraries More creative scholarship Access to the knowledge What is the long-term vision? 400,000 students annually Graduate degrees Exposure to electronic publishing ETDs become rich hypermedia works Graduate education More effective Students more productive Universities publish their scholarship Knowledge and technology transfer Faster Better From One to Many 1987: Discussions begin 1995: Virginia Tech Graduate School, Library, Computer Science partnership 1996 ETD_db (submission/management software) University governance approves requirement 1997: Required for ALL Masters’ theses and Doctoral dissertations 2004: Over 5,836 ETDs From One to Many NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations 197 universities members 58% non-US university members (114) 42% US universities (83) 32% require ETDs 13 institutional members Old vs. New at Virginia Tech 50,000 bound theses and dissertations 4,200 shelving feet 30 check-outs/week 6,000 ETDs 18,000 files 95% pdf 3% tif, gif, jpg .5% avi, wav .5% mov, mpg 22 gigabytes 1,156 distinct files requested weekly Authors Decide Access International Use of ETDs Why are ETDs so popular? Attractive as well as informative ETDs Colorful images Movement and sound Display for on-screen viewing Alternative means of conveying information Expanded network of research colleagues ETDs: Library Goals Improve library services Accessible sooner Constantly a