Buzz - Electronic Theses
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Digitisation and e-Delivery of Theses from ePrints Soton
Julian Ball and Christine Fowler describe the partnership between the University of Southampton’s Library Digitisation Unit and its institutional repository for digitising and hosting theses.
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Enhancing Collaboration and Interaction in a Post-graduate Research Programme
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for post-graduate students where RefShare is deployed for digital storage and retrieval, alongside Blackboard for the purposes of communication. She also describes the role of the information specialist in the programme.
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RefShare: A Community of Practice to Enhance Research Collaboration
Tertia Coetsee describes a community of practice for postgraduate students in phytomedicine using RefShare, to enhance collaborative research. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 64: Supporting the Power of Research Data
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 64. -
EThOS: from Project to Service
Jill Russell describes the impact the new Electronic Theses Online Service is making on the availability of UK doctoral theses. -
South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides
Martie van Deventer and Heila Pienaar provide us with background to recent South African repository initiatives and detail an example of knowledge transfer from one institution to another. -
EThOSnet: Building a UK E-Theses Community
Jill Russell outlines progress towards an e-theses service for the UK. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 52: The New Invisible Industry
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 52. -
Institutional Repositories and Their 'Other' Users: Usability Beyond Authors
Dana McKay summarises the literature on the usability of institutional repositories, and points to directions for future work. -
News and Events
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
Book Review: The Institutional Repository
Sally Rumsey recommends a new book about institutional repositories. -
The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting
Julie Allinson and Mahendra Mahey report on a 2-day JISC Digital Repositories Meeting focusing on project clusters working together and other related issues held by JISC in Warwick, UK over 27-28 March 2006. -
JISC and SURF International Workshop on Electronic Theses
Neil Jacobs reports on a JISC-SURF-CURL-sponsored event at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, over 19-20 January 2006. -
Improving DSpace@OSU With a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process
Michael Boock discusses the ease and usefulness of conducting a usability study and provides an example of usability testing at Oregon State University undertaken to improve the DSpace ET/D submission process. -
Online Repositories for Learning Materials: The User Perspective
Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development. -
The Tapir: Adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace
Richard Jones demonstrates how the Theses Alive Plugin for Institutional Repositories (Tapir) has provided E-Theses functionality for DSpace. -
DSpace Vs. ETD-db: Choosing Software to Manage Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Richard Jones examines the similarities and differences between DSpace and ETD-db to determine their applicability in a modern E-theses service. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38. -
DAEDALUS: Initial Experiences With EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow
William Nixon provides an overview of the DAEDALUS initial experience with the GNU EPrints and DSpace software and the decision to employ both. -
ECDL-2003 Web Archiving
Michael Day reports on the 3rd ECDL Workshop on Web Archives held in Trondheim, August 2003. -
Trends in Self-Posting of Research Material Online by Academic Staff
Theo Andrew sheds some light on current trends in posting research material online with a case study from The University of Edinburgh. -
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. -
Editorial Introduction to Issue 32: The Grid -The Web Twenty Years On?
Philip Hunter with the editorial for Ariadne issue 32. -
Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK
by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom. -
Newsline: News You Can Use
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. -
An Overview of Subject Gateway Activities in Australia
Debbie Campbell looks at how the original criteria proposed for an IMesh map against these Australian initiatives. -
Theses Unbound
Alason Roberts looks at the use of theses in academic libraries.