The Electronic Database of Academic Theses at FEA MU
| Session: Transition from
Classical to Electronic Media: Opportunities and Limitations |
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| Author: |
Jiří Poláček, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Iin
Brno; Czech Republic
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| Abstract: |
At Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University in Brno, there
was realized the first phase of the project which deals with accessing academic theses in an electronic form via
Internet. To the best of our knowledge, this act is currently unique in the Czech Republic. This paper recapitulates
experience with an administration of the collection of students' works, polemic of the selected presentational format
and its features, and also a partial description of a web server technical solution, which provides an access to the
e-theses to authorized users. The necessary administration itself includes rule barriers of student's obligation
to submit the thesis in an electronic form and also dealing with copyright aspects of theses. Benefits of the
Portable Document Format, security possibilities, digital signing, and problems of theses conversion to PDF are
discussed in the section dealing with the presentational format.
Description of the technical solution coheres with theses bibliographical records creation in XML language and its
usage in searching the requested thesis through a web browser. Security principles of the electronic database
related to the unauthorized accesses are commented as well.
Finally, there are considered additional paths of the actual system development including the possibility of
fulltext searching, which is close to an analysis of the free software usage in similar projects. It is possible to
enrich this contribution with online demonstration of this system. |
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| About the author: |
The author is an administrator of IT and electronic resources at Center of
Scientific Information (library) at Faculty of Economics and Administration.
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Other papers in this session:
- Digital Delivery of Teaching Materials (Robert Ingram-Smith,
ProQuest Information and Learning; United Kingdom)
- Kluwer Online - Accelerating the World of Research (Alan
Harris, Kluwer Academic Publishers; Netherlands)
- PEC = Portal of Electronic Periodicals (Marie Paráková,
Central Library, Charles University in Prague; Czech Republic
Co-authors: Petr Boldiš, postagraduate
student of Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University in Prague)
- One Step Ahead with ScienceDirect (Annemarie Koot, Elsevier
Science ; Netherlands)
- 14:50 - 15:15 Coffee Break ()
- Principles, Actors, Models, Workflows and Technologies in Electronic
Dissertations Systems (Eva Bratková, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles University
Prague; Czech Republic)
- Accessibility of Czech theses: starting points for future
solutions (Martin Svoboda, State Technical Library; Czech Republic
Co-authors: Jan Bayer, State
Technical Library)
- E-papers: Blind Alley of the Publication Development? Who is
Hampered? Who Profits? (Milan Špála, Charles University in Prague, First Medical Faculty; Czech Republic)
- Academic Information Portals (Kerstin Zimmermann, ftw.
(Telecommunications Research Centre Vienna); Austria)
- CABI Publishing : serving global applied life science research
(Chris Ison, CABI Publishing; United Kingdoms)
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