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Digitization of Doctoral Dissertations as a Part of Scientific Heritage: Objectives, Mission and Copyright Issues

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Tatjana Brzulovic Stanisavljevic, University of Belgrade, University library “Svetozar Marković”, Serbia

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Phd. Dragana Stolic, library advisor, University of Belgrade, University library "Svetozar Markovic", Serbia

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Abstract

Doctoral dissertations are very challenging material for library research and especially digitization. Different kinds of publications make a group of PhD thesis as a part of library collection: from non published papers which are considered as grey literature that students apply as final work of their doctoral studies, to old books printed in small number of copies, which was a practice on many universities at the end of 19th and in the beginning of 20th century. Old thesis can also be treated as a relevant part of national scientific heritage. The subject of this paper is to present the experience of the University library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade during the project of digitization of old doctoral dissertations and issues which arose during that activity. We can define at least three main aspects: 1) the relevance of dissertations as a part of national identity (one part of digitized dissertations, for example, Serbian scientists defended on the foreign universities) and historical significance of that material, 2) enhancement of the visibility of dissertations and possible revalorization of the their scientific achievements and 3) resolving the issue of copyright and a question of orphan works. The digitization of old doctoral dissertation poses great tasks in front of one university library which has to activate not only library resources, but also team of experts including historians and professors of law. This kind of activity promotes, at the same time, team work and interlibrary cooperation and should establish long term practice and research work of remarkable social and national interest.

Author's professional CV

MA Tatjana Brzulovic Stanisavljevic, library advisor, University of Belgrade, University library „Svetozar Markovic“, Serbia

Tatjana Brzulović Stanisavljević (1965) graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade at the Socio-political Department in 1988. In October 2010 she defended a master paper on the topic of “Copyright and Achievement of Reprographic Right: a Case Study on the Research Conducted at the University of Belgrade, University of Kragujevac and University of Niš” at the Library and Information Science Department at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade. She has worked at the University Library “Svetozar Marković” since June 1997. First, she was at the Folk Literature Department on the position for cataloguing serial publications and archival material which belonged to Vojislav Ilić Marambo. She passed the professional exam in librarianship in 1998. In the same year she started working at the Monographic Publications Department at first as a Cataloguer for domestic and foreign literature and since 2004 she has work as a Catalogue Editor for domestic literature. Between 2002 and 2005 she participated in the project for retrospective catalogization of doctoral dissertations as a chief editor of scripts. At the beginning of March 2007 she became Head of the Acquisition and Cataloguing Department and since January 2009 she has been Head of the Acquisition and Cataloguing Division. Since 2008 as a representative of Serbia at the international organization eIFL Tatjana has coordinated the field of copyright and intellectual property. Since October 2009 she has lectured on the topic of copyright within a programme for PhD candidates funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. As of May 2009 she is the President of the branch Libraries of the Univeristy of Belgrade and Libraries at Higher Education Institutions in Belgrade and she actively participates in the work of Serbian Library Association. She has participated in domestic and international conferences. She has published many scientific papers in Serbian and English both in domestic and international expert periodicals. She has published articles in the field of librarianship in the following journals: Organizacija znanja, Infoteka, Bibliotekar, Čitalište (Pančevo), Glasnik Narodne biblioteke Srbije. She actively participated in the following projects: New Library Services at Western Balkan Universities (2009–2011), Europeana (2009–2011) and Digitization of Doctoral Dissertations defended until 1941: Dissertations of Serbian Scientists Defended at Foreign Universities and Dissertations from the University of Belgrade (1905–1941) (2014).


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