Open access, open source and e‐theses: the development of the Edinburgh Research Archive

Jones, Richard D; Andrew, Theo

doi:10.1108/00330330510610555

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“…A number of potentially suitable software packages are currently available that can support different document types including ETDs (Narang, Kailash, Meher, et al, 2005). These include: DSpace, EPrints, ETD-db, TAPIR, FEDORA, Greenstone and several other software packages (Jones and Andrew, 2005;Narang, Kailash, Meher, et al, 2005). Some of these softwares are open source.…”

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Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Salmi

2008

Information Development

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This paper aims to establish the framework for understanding the positive and negative factors affecting the adoption and development of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) programs with particular reference to the situation in the Arab Gulf States. The reviewed literature shows that several interrelated factors have been found to encourage the adoption and development of ETD programs in university libraries: the appreciation of the benefits of ETD programs, awareness of these programs, and effective promotional and advocacy work that lead to cultural changes related to views on ETD programs. With regard to the Arab Gulf States, even though there is a lack of available literature, it appears that university libraries have the required infrastructure for encouraging the adoption and development of ETD programs. On the other hand some factors have been found to discourage the adoption of ETD programs. These include: technological factors, legal issues and other administrative issues. With regard to the Arab Gulf States, the available literature shows that some of the influencing factors are the same as those found in other countries, especially administrative and technological factors. In conclusion, it seems that most issues influencing the adoption and development of ETD programs can be resolved by undertaking appropriate promotional and advocacy activities.

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Section: Technological Factorsmentioning

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Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Salmi

2008

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“…9 where EFDs are displayed together with the corresponding PDFs. We point out that for the present study, fitting has been carried out by estimating the parameters of the selected PDF through the maximum likelihood method (Jones et al, 2015). In the following we restrict the analysis only to the three variables for which we have identified the parent PDF, i.e.…”

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Statistical properties of coastal long waves analysed through sea-level time-gradient functions: exemplary analysis of the Siracusa, Italy, tide-gauge data

Bressan

Tinti

2016

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. This study presents a new method to analyse the properties of the sea-level signal recorded by coastal tide gauges in the long wave range that is in a window between wind/storm waves and tides and is typical of several phenomena like local seiches, coastal shelf resonances and tsunamis. The method consists of computing four specific functions based on the time gradient (slope) of the recorded sea level oscillations, namely the instantaneous slope (IS) as well as three more functions based on IS, namely the reconstructed sea level (RSL), the background slope (BS) and the control function (CF). These functions are examined through a traditional spectral fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis and also through a statistical analysis, showing that they can be characterised by probability distribution functions PDFs such as the Student's t distribution (IS and RSL) and the beta distribution (CF). As an example, the method has been applied to data from the tide-gauge station of Siracusa, Italy.

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“…These conditions also cover the deposit of the thesis in other repositories, such as at NLW or in EThOS. Issues relating to the intellectual property and licensing of e-theses are discussed further in Jones and Andrew (2005) and Andrew (2004).…”

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Using OAI‐PMH and METS for exporting metadata and digital objects between repositories

Bell

Lewis²

2006

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PurposeTo examine the relationship between deposit of electronic theses in institutional and archival repositories. Specifically the paper considers the automated export of theses for deposit in the archival repository in continuation of the existing arrangement in Wales for paper-based theses. Design/methodology/approachWe present a description of software that makes use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as the first stage in the automatic import and ingest of items between institutional and archival repositories. The implications of this approach on the management of the institutional repository are also considered. FindingsWe show that OAI-PMH is a useful approach to harvesting the metadata for items to be imported into an archival repository. This reduces the difficulty of maintenance of the import and export software components albeit at the possible expense of necessitating certain requirements on the management of the institutional repository. Research implications/limitationsThe research shows that institutions can make use of OAI-PMH as a part of an automated export/import process, encouraging the preservation of multiple copies of digital items for increased safety of the content. Practical implicationsThe software has been developed and is being tested. It is proving capable of performing the required harvesting but the relative imprecision of searching in OAI-PMH has implications for the management of the exporting repository. These are discussed. Originality/valueWe present a description and discussion of novel software components that enable the use of OAI-PMH as the first stage in the export and import of digital items between repositories, independently (as far as is practicable) of the software used by the repositories themselves.

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Open access, open source and e‐theses: the development of the Edinburgh Research Archive

Abstract: Keywords: E-theses; Open access; Open source; Institutional repositories; DSpace; Edinburgh Research Archive Word length: 5,204 Show more

Cited by 19 publications

References 4 publications

Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Factors Influencing the Adoption and Development of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Programs, with Particular Reference to the Arab Gulf States

Statistical properties of coastal long waves analysed through sea-level time-gradient functions: exemplary analysis of the Siracusa, Italy, tide-gauge data

Using OAI‐PMH and METS for exporting metadata and digital objects between repositories

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