ETD: doing it together
Lluís M. Anglada
Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC)
ETD 2003
Berlin, May 22nd, 2003
Current situation
TDX is a service that gathers ETDs from Catalan universities
TDX is an organization involving 14 participant institutions
11 universities
2 consortia (supercomputing and libraries)
Catalonia
Autonomous region of Spain,
6,000,000 inhabitants,
Own language (Catalan),
University system of 8 public universities and 3 private ones,
University community of 172.000 students,
13.000 teaching staff and 6.000 administr. staff
National Library (Biblioteca de Catalunya).
TDX: evolution
1999: reports and early works, NDLTD membership
2000 Oct.: server set up
2001 Feb.: first ETD
2002 Feb.:
8 universities
429 ETDs
2003 May:
11 universities
Our organizational model
1
6 5
Student
E-doctoral thesis
(PDF) Database
CBUC/CESCA’s Responsability Student’s
responsability
7
E-doctoral thesis (several formats)
University’s responsability
TDX: agents’ roles
Universities
Collect and edit ETDs
CESCA (supercomputing center)
Server and software maintenance
CBUC (library consortium)
Coordination and promotion
Biblioteca de Catalunya (national library)
Preservation issues
TDX: initial objectives
Putting content on the Internet
Strengthening libraries’ role in
scholarly communication processes
Doing it inside an international project (NDLTD)
TDX: first steps
1999: State-of-the-art report
2000:
Legal report
Project and governmental funding
Agreement universities-CESCA-CBUC
Preparing the software: common interface
2000: main problems
Disagreement at universities between different departments
Lack of information for the main players:
the authors
Lots of “good” reasons to change not the current status quo
Solutions: doing it together
Complementariness
‘Globalitzation’
Promotion
Emulation
Complementariness
Common TDX Intranet built from participant universities’ information
In order to:
Share procedures
Share forms
Share contracts
Share promotion tools
Dispel uncertainties
‘Globalization’
ETDs as one more aspect about content digitization
Biblioteca Digital de Catalunya (Digital Library of Catalonia)
Union catalogue
Databases, e-journals, e-books
e-TOC’s database
TDX ...
Promotion
Emulation
0 10 20 30 40 50
UB UAB UPC UPF UdG UdL URV UOC
% of ETDs Size of university
Some results
requested theses, by university of origin
submited/requested
submited theses, by subject
Access by country
Results: requested theses, by university of origin
10
21
61
2 2 1 2 1
UB UAB UPC UPF UdG UdL URV UOC
% on total requested theses
Results: submited/requested
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
UB UAB UPC UPF UdG UdL URV UOC Submited Requested
Results: submited theses, by subject
4 3
0
17
27
40
4 3 2
0 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9
Current facilities
Global search
Links to ETDs from the union catalogue (CCUC)
Browsing by subject
In compliance with OAI standards (available next month)
The future
Extending TDX to the rest of Catalan universities
Including all (or nearly all) current theses in TDX
Promoting TDX as the embryo of an
institutional repository for Catalan universities
Including (some) old (print) theses and dissertations
Thanks for your attention
langlada@cbuc.es
Info@tdx.es
http://www.cbuc.es
http://www.tdx.cesca.es
