1. ETD: doing it together Lluís M. Anglada Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) ETD 2003 Berlin, May 22nd, 2003

2. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt 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) 1 ‘national’ library

3. 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).

4. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt 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 Nearly 1.000 ETDs

5. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Our organizational model 1 5 6 Student E-doctoral thesis (PDF) Database CBUC/CESCA’s Responsability Student’s responsability 7 E-doctoral thesis (several formats) University’s responsability

6. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt 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

7. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt TDX: initial objectives Putting content on the Internet Strengthening libraries’ role in scholarly communication processes Doing it inside an international project (NDLTD)

8. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt 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

9. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt 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

10. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Solutions: doing it together Complementariness ‘Globalitzation’ Promotion Emulation

11. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Complementariness Common TDX Intranet built from participant universities’ information In order to: Share procedures Share forms Share contracts Share promotion tools Dispel uncertainties

12. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt ‘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...

13. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Promotion

14. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Emulation

15. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Some results requested theses, by university of origin submited/requested submited theses, by subject Access by country

16. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Results: requested theses, by university of origin

17. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Results: submited/requested

18. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Results: submited theses, by subject

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20. Current facilities Global search Links to ETDs from the union catalogue (CCUC) Browsing by subject In compliance with OAI standards (available next month)

21. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt 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

22. B3/Tde/0305TDXBerlin.ppt Thanks for your attention langlada@cbuc.es Info@tdx.es http://www.cbuc.es http://www.tdx.cesca.es