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DAEDALUS: DSpace & ETDs at Glasgow
William J NixonProject Manager: Service Development (DAEDALUS)
Electronic Theses – The Next Stage British Library, Sept 2004
Theses at Glasgow
• Member of UTOG and British Library Thesis Service
• Joined NDLTD in 2001
Special Collections
• 13,000 Theses held• Oldest Thesis is
“Dyspepsia” from 1838
• Theses available for consultation in Special Collections
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
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
Range of Software
• GNU Eprints (Southampton)
• DSpace (MIT & H-P)
• ETD-db (Virginia Tech)
• ARC Search Software (Old Dominion)
Move from ETD-db to DSpace
• Range of software which we support and concerns about support and sustainability
• Strong faculty interest in ETD’s
• Model of Communities and Collections
• Development of Tapir by Theses Alive!
• Developments with DSpace 1.2
Outreach to Alumni
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
DAEDALUS – Freeing Theses at the University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/daedalus
DAEDALUS