1. DAEDALUS: DSpace & ETDs at Glasgow William J Nixon Project Manager: Service Development (DAEDALUS) Electronic Theses – The Next Stage British Library, Sept 2004

2. Theses at Glasgow Member of UTOG and British Library Thesis Service Joined NDLTD in 2001

3. Special Collections 13,000 Theses held Oldest Thesis isDyspepsia from 1838 Theses available for consultation in Special Collections

4. DAEDALUS and Glasgow Institutional Repository project Funded by JISC under FAIR Core strategic aim for Glasgow University Library Two strands –Advocacy –Service Development Eprints and Dspace are integral components

5. Range of Repositories Published and peer-reviewed papers Pre-prints, grey literature, technical reports, working papers Theses Research Finding Aids Administrative Documents Other objects: images, sound files, film clips Search service

6. Range of Software GNU Eprints (Southampton) DSpace (MIT & H-P) ETD-db (Virginia Tech) ARC Search Software (Old Dominion)

10. Move from ETD-db to DSpace Range of software which we support and concerns about support and sustainability Strong faculty interest in ETDs Model of Communities and Collections Development of Tapir by Theses Alive! Developments with DSpace 1.2

15. Outreach to Alumni

16. Ongoing Work Upgrade to DSpace 1.2 Installation of Tapir Enrichment of ETD records in line with the ETD Metadata Set Further advocacy Ongoing work with Faculty and our ETD submission form

17. DAEDALUS – Freeing Theses at the University of Glasgow http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus DAEDALUS