学位论文全文数据库建设与探索

结合本校博士、硕士学位论文全文数据库的建设实践，对学位论文远程提交、版权处理、元数据规范、数据采集与加工、信息发布等关键性环节进行了探索。     

学位论文描述性元数据的设计

介绍学位论文描述性元数据标准制订中遇到的几个问题;在对国内外已有学位论文描述性无数据进行比较分析的基础上,对学位论文著录对象和著录单位进行分析,并讨论基于DC的学位论文元数据制订方案、基于DC的扩展机制、元数据结构、元素组成互操作性等问题。     

国内外学位论文再出版的政策研究及启示

博、硕士学位论文具有重要的学术价值,而国内外学术界和出版界对于学位论文内容的再出版问题持有不同的观点。通过调研国内外学术界和出版界发现,国外绝大多数高校和出版机构认为学位论文并不算作先前出版物,基于学位论文内容再出版的稿件能否被接受,关键在于稿件的质量,另外,根据不同出版机构及受众特点对学位论文进行修改是非常必要的。国内相关研究尚待深入,多数研究人员和期刊编辑认为,学位论文因学术价值的特殊性,其析出内容的再出版应得到更加理性和全面的分析。面对纷繁乱象,建议我国有关部门应尽快出台相关规定,出版机构阐明学位论文与先前出版物的关系,以及对于学位论文析出内容再出版的要求,以适应网络出版日益普及的新形势。     

学位论文库元数据标准的研究

概述了我国元数据的研究现状，特别是在学位论文库中的应用现状。指明了元数据的相关概念及功能。研究了国内外学位论文库的元数据标准，提出了中文学位论文库元数据标准，并简要说明了元数据的描述与实现。     

Demonstrating Library Impact Through Acknowledgment: An Examination of Acknowledgments in Theses and Dissertations

Academic libraries are increasingly seeking ways to demonstrate their impact on student learning. Acknowledgments - formal statements of indebtedness – in graduate theses and dissertations provide a rather unexplored area for demonstrating impact of the academic library on student learning. This study uses quantitative and qualitative methods to characterize acknowledgments of the Texas A&M University Libraries (TAMU Libraries) in theses and dissertations, both overall and for three disciplines specifically: civil engineering, geography, and history. This study also searched for mentions of the TAMU Libraries throughout the entire body of theses and dissertations. Overall, acknowledgments to the TAMU Libraries in theses and dissertations were less than 1%, though acknowledgments were found in all three disciplines with over a quarter of the history theses and dissertations containing an acknowledgment to libraries. There was no statistically significant difference found between the numbers of acknowledgments in theses versus dissertations. Acknowledgments to the TAMU Libraries were found in the theses and dissertations of 28 different departments. Mentions to the TAMU Libraries – not necessarily a formal acknowledgment – were found throughout the text of theses and dissertations with most concentrated in the acknowledgment, method, and bibliography sections.     

A Process for the Original Cataloging of Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this article is to describe the reasoning, methodology, and impact behind a semi-automated cataloging process for electronic theses and dissertations, and to explain the importance of the retention and addition of cataloger-created metadata. The authors explain an automated process that is initiated by ProQuest and student (author) entered data, and through the addition of metadata by catalogers, including the subject headings, classification number, and so on. The study includes a survey of the public service librarians’ perceived usefulness of the cataloger- and ProQuest-generated metadata to describe theses and dissertations.     

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Initiatives: A Survey of University Libraries in Nigeria

The study investigated the extent of adoption of electronic theses and dissertations in university libraries in Nigeria. Data collection for the study was via online questionnaire. The study revealed that digitization of theses and dissertations started between 1980 and 1995. It was found that only a few university libraries have embraced digitization of theses and dissertations in Nigeria. Benefits of electronic theses and dissertations were identified as improving university ranking and visibility, increasing access to the theses and dissertations, saving space in the library, enabling others link to the work with persistent URLs, preserving the work for future generations, and saving costs for students. Challenges such as unstable internet connectivity, lack of funding, irregular power supply, lack of information technology personnel, absence of electronic theses and dissertations submission policy, and copyright issues were identified. It is hoped that the study might provide insights useful for librarians planning to embark on the digitization of theses and dissertations project.     

Scatter and obsolescence of journals cited in theses and dissertations of librarianship

This article analyzes the bibliometric features (the number of pages, completion years, the fields of subject, the number of citations, and their distribution by types of sources and years) of 100 theses and dissertations completed at the Department of Librarianship of Hacettepe University between 1974 and 2002. Almost a quarter (24%) of all dissertations were on university libraries, followed by public libraries (9%). Doctoral dissertations were, on average, twice as long as master's theses and contained 2.5 times more citations. Monographs received more citations (50%) than journal articles did (42%). Recently completed theses and dissertations contained more citations to electronic publications. Fourteen (or 3.2% of all) journal titles (including Türk Kütüphaneciliği, College & Research Libraries, and Journal of the American Society for Information Science) received almost half (48.9%) of all citations. Eighty percent of journal titles were cited infrequently. No correlation was found between the frequency of citations of the most frequently cited journals and their impact factors. Cited journal titles in master's and doctoral theses and dissertations overlapped significantly. Similarly, journal titles cited in dissertations also overlapped significantly with those that were cited in the journal articles published in the professional literature. The distribution of citations to foreign journal titles fit Bradford's Law of Scattering. The mean half-life of all cited sources was 9 years. Sources cited in master's dissertations were relatively more current. Single authorship was the norm in cited resources. Coupled with in-library use data, findings of the present study can be used to identify the core journal titles in librarianship as well as to evaluate the existing library collections to decide which journal titles to keep, discard, or relegate to off-site storage areas.     

Evaluation of a Program for Assigning Subject Headings to Local Theses and Dissertations

The assignment of subject headings to local theses and dissertations can be a time-consuming and costly activity in libraries where catalogers lack subject specialties. However, for many libraries subject analysis for theses and dissertations is a worthwhile task. At the Sterling C. Evans Library at Texas A&M University a program was instituted to remedy this situation by asking the student to suggest Library of Congress subject headings that accurately reflect the content of his or her work. This article reports the findings of an evaluation of this program and some considerations for its improvement. The authors believe that the use of such a program could speed the cataloging process as well as provide improved subject access to local theses and dissertations.     

Digitizing Dissertations for an Institutional Repository: A Process and Cost Analysis

Objective:

This paper describes the Lamar Soutter Library''s process and costs associated with digitizing 300 doctoral dissertations for a newly implemented institutional repository at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Methodology:

Project tasks included identifying metadata elements, obtaining and tracking permissions, converting the dissertations to an electronic format, and coordinating workflow between library departments. Each dissertation was scanned, reviewed for quality control, enhanced with a table of contents, processed through an optical character recognition function, and added to the institutional repository.

Results:

Three hundred and twenty dissertations were digitized and added to the repository for a cost of $23,562, or $0.28 per page. Seventy-four percent of the authors who were contacted (n = 282) granted permission to digitize their dissertations. Processing time per title was 170 minutes, for a total processing time of 906 hours. In the first 17 months, full-text dissertations in the collection were downloaded 17,555 times.

Conclusion:

Locally digitizing dissertations or other scholarly works for inclusion in institutional repositories can be cost effective, especially if small, defined projects are chosen. A successful project serves as an excellent recruitment strategy for the institutional repository and helps libraries build new relationships. Challenges include workflow, cost, policy development, and copyright permissions.

Highlights

• The Lamar Soutter Library partnered with the University of Massachusetts Medical School Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences to digitize doctoral dissertations for inclusion in a newly created institutional repository.
• Seventy-four percent of dissertation authors (209/282) gave permission for the digitization. The cost to process the entire dissertation collection in-house was $23,562, only $1,062 more than the estimate to outsource.
• Digitizing the dissertation collection increased access: the print collection was used 723 times in the past 5 years, while the electronic collection was used 17,555 times in 17 months.

Implications

• Digitizing student works is an effective way to begin populating an institutional repository.
• In-house digitization projects can be cost-competitive with outsourced alternatives.
• A repository can be a catalyst for developing relationships in the institution by providing the library with a new avenue for outreach.
• Skills and experience gained from a small project can be applied to larger-scale projects.

     

The comparative importance of books: clinical psychology in the health sciences library

Clinical psychology has received little attention as a subject in health sciences library collections. This study seeks to demonstrate the relative importance of the monographic literature to clinical psychology through the examination of citations in graduate student theses and dissertations at the Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University. Dissertations and theses were sampled randomly; citations were classified by format, counted, and subjected to statistical analysis. Books and book chapters together account for 35% of the citations in clinical psychology dissertations, 25% in nursing theses, and 8% in biomedical sciences theses and dissertations. Analysis of variance indicates that the citations in dissertations and theses in the three areas differ significantly (F = 162.2 with 2 and 253 degrees of freedom, P = 0.0001). Dissertations and theses in biomedical sciences and nursing theses both cite significantly more journals per book than the dissertations in clinical psychology. These results support the hypothesis that users of clinical psychology literature rely more heavily on books than many other users of a health sciences library. Problems with using citation analyses in a single subject to determine a serials to monographs ratio for a health sciences library are pointed out.     

论高校图书馆电子版学位论文的保存与管理工作——以北京大学图书馆为例

通过对国内外高校图书馆学位论文全文管理现状进行分析,结合当前国内外文档管理技术发展和学位论文系统研发情况,重点介绍北京大学图书馆的学位论文资源建设工作,并就当前国内学位论文工作中普遍存在的全文文件格式、版权等问题提出解决对策。     

“211”高校图书馆本校学术文献资源建设调查与分析

[目的/意义] 注重收藏本校以及本校有关出版物和学术文献对建设具有本校特色的文献信息资源体系及建设高校机构知识库至关重要。[方法/过程] 利用定量分析、定性分析、比较分析等研究方法,以116所"211"高校作为研究对象,采用网站访查的方式获得数据,从本校教师著作和学位论文两个方面对高校本校学术文献资源建设及其利用现状进行深入调研分析。[结果/结论] 高校图书馆普遍重视学位论文的收藏,收藏率高达93%,但借阅率偏低,纸本文献总借阅率仅为14%;本校教师著作的收藏率虽然只有47%,但借阅率要高于学位论文;鉴于馆藏空间有限,将两类资源电子化已成为趋势。在电子资源利用程度方面,两种文献尤其是学位论文大多对收藏机构外的用户设置IP权限。两类文献都需要进一步提高其共享性和开放性。     

A Citation Analysis of ETD and Non-ETD Producing Authors

This work takes advantage of the current status of the development of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the University of Louisville to reexamine a previous study that compared ETD and non-ETD producing authors' use of the professional literature. As with the previous study, this effort found no noticeable difference in the two groups of doctoral students' referencing behavior. This review of 100 dissertations and their 13,926 references confirmed the previous work's conclusions that doctoral students' publication format is not reflective of their library research. These findings suggest that librarians need not amend their efforts in response to academia's on-going development of ETDs and that differences between ETD and non-ETD authors are unrelated to their utilization of library resources.     

关于学位论文资源建设与开发的战略思考

学位论文作为一种重要的文献资源,其资源建设与开发利用日益得到图书馆界的重视。鉴于多年来形成的条块分割的管理体制及学位论文资源建设与开发中涉及的知识产权问题并非能够在短期内解决,我国应构建以博士学位论文为核心的学位论文资源建设与服务体系,以学位论文数据库建设为中心,全面推进学位论文资源的开发,同时处理好学位论文资源建设与开发过程中各参与主体之间的关系。     

德国电子学位论文元数据XMetaDiss及对我国的启示

针对电子学位论文的长期保存问题,论述了德国电子学位论文元数据XMetaDiss的产生、发展、结构及其应用前景,对XMetaDiss与我国CALIS高校学位论文元数据进行了比较,得出一些对我国电子学位论文信息组织的有益启示。     

我国图书馆学博士学位论文统计分析（1994--2010）

针对我国三大博士论文数据库中收录的图书馆学博士论文,从研究领域、研究主题、关键词等角度出发,对1994--2010年我国图书馆学的博士论文进行统计分析。通过中图分类法对博士论文的研究领域进行归类,并根据博士论文的选题进行主题分析,最后提取博士论文的所有关键词进行词频分析。旨在反映我国图书馆学博士论文的研究趋势和研究热点,为我国今后的图书馆学研究提供借鉴。     

Basic,fuller, fullest: Treatment options for electronic theses and dissertations

Given the thousands of theses and dissertations (TDs) that are produced each year, and their role in advancing their disciplines, it is well worth disseminating them as widely as possible. A great leap forward in increasing TD distribution has been the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) movement. ETD information in catalogs provides valuable basic access, especially when bibliographic records are contributed to large databases. While these bibliographic records can be created automatically by harvesting author-supplied metadata from ETDs, for fuller access, cataloger mediation is needed to remove errors and numeric entities; plus name authority control. Fullest access entails subject analysis.     

论国家博硕士学位论文数字资源保障体系建设

建设国家博硕士论文数字资源保障体系是国家信息资源战略储备的需要,对促进成果交流和共享,提高科研水平,具有重要意义。目前,国内外学位论文数字资源建设中的论文收集、加工、服务方面,有集中式和分布式两种模式;版权处理上有商业和非商业模式。我国国家学位论文数字资源保障体系建设的论文收集、加工、服务及版权问题处理,应分别情况,采用不同模式。参考文献1。     

Collaboration in information and library science doctoral education

Coauthorship is increasing across all areas of scholarship. Despite this trend, dissertations as sole-authored monographs are still revered as the cornerstone of doctoral education. As students learn the norms and communicative behaviors of their field during their doctoral education, do they also learn collaborative behaviors? This study investigated this issue through triangulation of 30 interviews, 215 questionnaires, and bibliometric analyses of 97 CVs in the field of library and information science (LIS). The findings demonstrate that collaboration occurs in about half of advisee/advisor relationships and is primarily understood as research dissemination outside the dissertation. Respondents reported that the dissertation was not and should not be considered a collaborative product. The discussion also includes a commentary about grant funding and the implications for this on models of academic scholarship and research production.