VTLS, Inc. – NDLTD Collaboration on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) VTLS Mtg – Blacksburg, VA May 3, 2000 Edward A. Fox CC CS DLRL Internet TIC Virginia Tech

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Leader of the Worldwide ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) Initiative Training Authors Expanding Access Preserving Knowledge Improving Graduate Education Enhancing Scholarly Communication Empowering Students & Universities

A Digital Library Case Study F Domain: graduate education, research F Genre:ETDs=electronic theses & dissertations F Submission: F Collection: Project: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD) (part of Open Archives Initiative - see:

Student Gets Committee Signatures and Submits ETD Signed Grad School

Library Catalogs ETD, Access is Opened to the New Research WWW NDLTD

Institutional Members F Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) F Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) F Diplomica.com F Dissertation.com F Dissertationen Online (Germany) F Ibero-American Science & Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC, F National Library of Portugal (for all universities) F Organization of American States (SEDI/OAS) F UNESCO (

US University Members (42) F U. of Colorado Health Science Center F U. of Florida F U. of Georgia F University of Hawaii, Manoa F U. of Iowa F U. of Kentucky F U. of Maine F U. of North Texas – required since 8/99 F U. of Oklahoma F U. of South Florida F U. of Tennessee, Knoxville F U. of Tennessee, Memphis F U. of Texas at Austin F U. of Virginia F U. Wisconsin - Madison F Vanderbilt U. F Virginia Commonwealth U. F Virginia Tech - required since 1/97 F West Virginia U. - required fall 1998 F Western Michigan U. F Worcester Polytechnic Inst. F Air University (Alabama) F Baylor University F Brigham Young University F Caltech F Clemson University F College of William & Mary F Concordia University (Illinois) F East Carolina University F East Tenn. State U. – require fall 2000 F Florida Institute of Tech. F Florida International University F George Washington University F Louisiana State University F Marshall University (W. Va.) F Miami U. of Ohio F MIT F Michigan Tech F Naval Postgraduate School (CA) F North Carolina State U. F Penn. State University F Rochester Institute of Tech.

National / Regional Projects F Australia –U. New South Wales (lead) –U. of Melbourne –U. of Queensland –U. of Sydney –Australian National U. –Curtin U. of Technology –Griffith U. F Germany –Humboldt University (lead) –3 other universities –5 learned societies: Math, Physics, Chemistry, Sociology, Education –1 computing center –2 major libraries F Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya, as group, –Universitat de Barcelona –Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona –Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya –Universitat Pompeu Fabra –Universitat de Girona –Universitat de Lleida –Universitat Rovira i Virgili –Universitat Oberta de Catalunya –Biblioteca de Catalunya

Other International Members F Chinese University of Hong Kong F Chungnam National U. (S. Korea - CS) F City University, London (UK) F Darmstadt U. of Tech. (Germany) F Free University of Berlin (GE - Vet. Med.) F Gyeongsang National U. (Korea) F India Institute of Tech., Bombay (India) F Nanyang Technological U. (Singapore, pt) F National U. of Singapore (Singapore, pt)

Other International Members cont’d F Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) F Rhodes U. (South Africa) F St. Petersburg St. Tech.U (Russia) F Univ. de las Américas Puebla (Mexico) F Univ. of Alicante (Spain) F Univ. of Pisa (Italy) F Univ. Utrecht (NL – type 4) F U. Laval; U. of Guelph; U. Waterloo; F Wilfrid Laurier U. (Canada), …

Access Possibilities Web search engines library catalog clients www. theses. org www. openarchives. org 3 rd Party Services (e.g., UMI) Virginia Tech National Library of Portugal CBUC (Spain) Ohio Link MITNational Projects: AU, GE, …

Collaboration F NDLTD Goals –Helping universities enhance graduate education, publishing, and IPR efforts –Helping improve the availability, quality, and hypermedia content of theses and dissertations –Educating ALL future scholars so they can publish electronically and effectively use digital libraries (including submitting works through the Open Archives initiative) F NDLTD Actions –Welcoming VTLS users to join NDLTD –Helping with pilot projects: F VTLS, Inc. & Users –UCL pilot using Virtua and NDLTD software –Bundling NDLTD software with Virtua –Pilot to harvest metadata records for theses and dissertations from universities that use VTLS software, encouraging their joining NDLTD