Nurse scholars' knowledge and use of electronic theses and dissertations

Abstract

The submission of this manuscript in its final form has been approved by all authors. All authors entitled to authorship are listed as authors and in order of their contributions. Each of the authors listed made substantial contributions to the conception and design of this study; development of the researcher-generated survey used to collect data; participated in data collection, and provided input relative to the analysis and interpretation of data. Although the primary author drafted the manuscript, the other authors significantly contributed to the revisions and critically reviewed the manuscript relative to their expertise including nursing and library science. There are no conflicts of interest.

A Review of Emerging ETD Initiatives, Challenges and Future Developments

“…Access privileges [10], [11], [15], metadata standardization [12], [16], system models [2], [11] and policies [1], [6], [14], were the information of importance. Finally, synthesis entails coming up with generalizations.…”

“…Thereafter, several members worldwide have joined the advocacy as shown in http://www.ndltd.org/about/membership.Likewise, affiliation to world-known organizations like NDLTD became a trend in aiming for wider visibility, example: China NDLTD [2]. [6], [8], [9], [26] Accessibility and interoperability -institutional ETDs in different structures -lack of provision for mandatory submission; limited participation -opposition concerns (purloined ideas; substandard graduate researches; Internet access rejections; confidentiality of research topic.…”

“…One of the failure evidences of ETD project is the underutilization of contents [6], [8], despite the growing number of studies produced yearly [1], [9], [10]. Nowadays, ETDs are accessible on the Internet via popular search engines (e.g.…”

“…This collaboration among stakeholders could uphold the objectives set [1]. Additionally, training could alleviate the nurse's lack of awareness and understanding of the value of TnD as found in the study of [6].…”

“…sought to mitigate the problems associated with ETD. At present however, there are still evidences of dissatisfaction among the research communities [1], [6], [9], [11].…”