1. Unlocking Thesis Data update DOI: 10.15123/PUB.4314
Stephen Grace
orcid.org/
DataCite Client Meeting, London, 6 July 2015

2. Outline What is the Unlocking Thesis Data project?
What have we done so far?
What do we plan?
Live minting of thesis DOIs at Universities of East London, Southampton and Glasgow
Questions and feedback

3. Introducing students to the new norm of data sharing and identifiers
Scope and Gap
Introducing students to the new norm of data sharing and identifiers
Students – Institutions – Funders
Enhancing national scale thesis discovery to make space for data/software
Tracking student careers via ORCiD
Better tracking of theses/data through citations and metrics
04/12/2018
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4. For funders: value for money, impact reporting
Impact and Benefits
For students: bridge to norms of being a career researcher, visibility and citations
For funders: value for money, impact reporting
For institutions: profile of doctoral research
For researchers: availability of valuable research content, replication, building on previous research, repurposing data/software, cross-discipline
04/12/2018
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5. Leveraging sustainability of ORCiD and DOI systems
Not a problem to fix, but an opportunity to embrace the inevitable world of identifiers and data sharing at a national scale
This will become the new business-as-usual for HEIs across the EThOS network
Existing and agreed standards, matching with other developments like RIOXX, Casrai, Jisc Pathfinders etc
Leveraging sustainability of ORCiD and DOI systems
04/12/2018
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6. What we found from the survey 1
Lot of interest – 49 responses =35%
59% still require both p- and e-copies, often duplicating cataloguing effort
MD created by student, administrator or library/repository
24 volunteered as case studies
Analysis at data at

7. What we found from the survey 2
How ready are you to begin assigning DOI identifiers to your theses? N=49

8. What we found from the survey 3
Little or no guidance on supplementary files (aka data), and thus little incentive for students to offer data, so few examples
One DOI or many?
“We will probably use a single record with single DOI”
“Separate record in data repository for each significant data collection, linked to thesis in publications IR”
“ … users will be free to choose granularity of DOI minting.”

9. Case studies University of East London University of Southampton
London School of Economics and Political Science
University of the Arts London
University of Bristol
University of Leicester
Mix of platforms
Mix of DOI and ORCID readiness
Mix of metadata creation – student, administrator, library
Publishing next week so check the blog!

10. Outputs, milestones and indicators of success
Phase 1: survey results, 5 case studies overlaid with Persistent Identifiers, synthesis and recommendations for next steps
Phase 2: draft recommendations to HEIs, proof of concept in 3 HEIs, clinics to work through institutional implementation, solution for smaller institutions
Phase 3: final metadata requirements, software development of EPrints, DSpace and possibly others, EThOS itself, toolkit and guidance for implementing across national network
04/12/2018
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11. Live minting of DOIs University of East London thesis
University of Southampton thesis
University of Glasgow thesis

12. Questions and feedback
Guidance on what could/should/must be deposited?
One record or more?
Opportunities for efficiencies?

13. Thank you Stephen Grace, UTD Project Manager
With thanks to Jisc for funding UTD, and to my project team colleagues Michael Whitton, Sara Gould and Rachael Kotarski or
Blog at unlockingthesisdata.wordpress.com