Enhanced Accessibility of Master Theses Related to Real Estate

Grey Literature? Bob Martens Vienna University of Technology

 Introduction: Why Access?  Starting point and procedure  ERES Digital Library: Collectioning  Content Analysis  Demonstration

Introduction: Why Access?... Thesis work: either unpublished or published in non-commercial form... Limited number of hard copies... Often the best source of up-to-date research work  Improved access by way of electronic publishing [--> PDF-files]

Starting point and procedure -1  ERES Education Seminar Zurich (2010) Visibility of master thesis work Expansion of existing library catalogues ? Further investigation announced  Enquiry among Real-Estate course sites Just surfing?  hidden information Rather difficult to search and to find

Starting point and procedure -2  Pro-active mode Sharing: „Online Public Access Catalogue“ (OPAC) and static links Extended information at the course website  Reluctant mode Avoiding any form of distraction Source for plagiarism ?!

ERES Digital Library -1 Starting point!

ERES Digital Library -2 As of today 13 sites

ERES Digital Library -3 Example: Geislingen-Nürtingen

ERES Digital Library -4 Example: Luzern

Content Analysis -1  Checking the state of the art  Has a topic been published already ?  Prevalent themes ?  Semantic Web applications?  Grabbing approx. 1,100 (german) titles  Word stemming  Tag cloud

Content Analysis -2

Demonstration  Online demonstration  Where do go from here?  Your hints are welcome!!