DAEDALUS: DSpace & ETDs at Glasgow

William J NixonProject Manager: Service Development (DAEDALUS)

Electronic Theses – The Next Stage British Library, Sept 2004

Theses at Glasgow

• Member of UTOG and British Library Thesis Service

• Joined NDLTD in 2001

Special Collections

• 13,000 Theses held• Oldest Thesis is

“Dyspepsia” from 1838

• Theses available for consultation in Special Collections

DAEDALUS and Glasgow

• Institutional Repository project• Funded by JISC under FAIR• Core strategic aim for Glasgow University

Library• Two strands

– Advocacy– Service Development

• Eprints and Dspace are integral components

Range of Repositories

• Published and peer-reviewed papers• Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports,

working papers• Theses• Research Finding Aids• Administrative Documents• Other objects: images, sound files, film clips• Search service

Range of Software

• GNU Eprints (Southampton)

• DSpace (MIT & H-P)

• ETD-db (Virginia Tech)

• ARC Search Software (Old Dominion)

Move from ETD-db to DSpace

• Range of software which we support and concerns about support and sustainability

• Strong faculty interest in ETD’s

• Model of Communities and Collections

• Development of Tapir by Theses Alive!

• Developments with DSpace 1.2

Outreach to Alumni

Ongoing Work

• Upgrade to DSpace 1.2

• Installation of Tapir

• Enrichment of ETD records in line with the ETD Metadata Set

• Further advocacy

• Ongoing work with Faculty and our ETD submission form

DAEDALUS – Freeing Theses at the University of Glasgow

http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus

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