Principles, Actors, Models, Workflows and Technologies in Electronic Dissertations Systems
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Classical to Electronic Media: Opportunities and Limitations |
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Eva Bratková, Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship, Charles
University Prague; Czech Republic
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| Abstract: |
The contribution is a survey of basic issues concerning the systems for
creation, processing, storing, long-term preservation and dissemination of dissertations and other academic qualifying
works in electronic form. It results from the analysis and evaluation of experiences gained from the operation of these
systems in foreign countries in last 7-8 years. The objectives and also individual actors of these systems (authors,
university officials and teachers, librarians, computer experts and, if need be, library organizations and state
authorities too) and their roles in the life cycle of an electronic dissertation are characterized. Different models of
existing or prepared systems on international, national or local level are compared. The way of free and commercial
electronic publishing of dissertations is confronted. The workflows of creation, submission or deposit and defence of
electronic dissertations, including processes of authors preparation and support, solution of author and other rights
and legislative frameworks of these systems are discussed in details. The contribution characterizes existing and
perspective models of information retrieval from the digital libraries of electronic dissertations (for example from the
NDLTD etc.) which are dependent in substantial degree on formats of electronic dissertations itself and metadata formats
too. The benefits of formats for long-term preservation of electronic dissertations based on SGML/XML are emphasized.
The aim of this communication is to prepare the starting points for creation of systems of electronic dissertations in
the Czech republic.
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| About the author: |
Assistant professor of the Institute of Information Studies and Librarianship,
Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. To her professional interests belong bibliographic systems and services,
identification and description of information resources, electronic information resources and their databases, their
formats, bibliographic formats and metadata, information retrieval, and digital libraries/archives and their services.
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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 ()
- The Electronic Database of Academic Theses at FEA MU (Jiří
Poláček, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University Iin Brno; 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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