1. Institutional Repositories: a workshop on creating an information infrastructure for the scholarly community 17- 19 July 2007 JOHANNESBURG The RESEARCH LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM In cooperation with The Unisa ETD Ansie van der Westhuizen Unisa Library vdwesapj@unisa.ac.za

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. Closure and questions