Institutional Repositories: a workshop on creating an information infrastructure for the scholarly community July 2007 JOHANNESBURG The RESEARCH LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM In cooperation with The Unisa ETD Ansie van der Westhuizen Unisa Library

 Originated in 2001  Library Senate Committee  Proposal stages  Demands from clients Introduction

 ETD 2003 in Berlin  Approval for requesting ETD-db from Virginia Tech  Support from ICT  ETD-db downloaded, installed and customised Development and implementation

 Online submissions not implemented  Library staff do submissions  ETDs submitted together with printed copies  Guidelines for students  CDs, stiffies, flash disks,  Ms Word, rtf, pdf, jpeg, mp3 Submission process

 Create OASIS record  Convert to pdf or mp3  Create security  Quality control Preparing ETDs for uploading

 Create login account on author links  Create metadata  Add abstract and keywords  Upload files  Quality control Uploading ETDs

 Approximately 1300 ETDs online  Upgrade of the repository  Retrospective scanning  Institutional repository  ETD-db merged into Unisa repository Current status and way forward

Closure and questions