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Current state of activities and trends in the ETD’s development in Scandinavia

Eva MüllerElectronic Publishing CentreUppsala University Library

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Some characteristic

• The past five years’ dynamic development – Local issues – Local solutions– Local stakeholders– Local funding sources

• Current state of development– Cooperation regionally/nationally/internationally– Cooperation around specific solutions– Additional national funding sources

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Projects

Transition from local issues to coordinating activities

• SVEP project in Sweden• Digital library projects in Norway, Finland,

Denmark• Nordic project DiVA• Issues:

– Interoperability, aggregate services – Long-term preservation – Promotional activities

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PortalsExamples of aggregate services

DiVA portal (Sweden)Twelve universities, 3 countrieshttp://diva-portal.org Participants universities with much research3000 doctoral theses

Undergraduate theses – Uppsök (Sweden)6 participantshttp://libris.kb.se/Participants mostly university collegeas6000 undergraduate theses

NoAISTER (Norway), NELLI http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/english/nelli/ (Finland)

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Why local portals for ETDs ?

• Excellent way to present existing content to different audience

• Language specific (undergraduate theses mostly written in Scandinavian languages)

• Create positive competition– helps get strong local support– promotes submission by students

• Different focus at research universities & univ. colleges (doctoral theses & undergraduate theses)

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Future?

• Fewer aggregated general services– Some of current services probably

redundant• DiVA versus national services

• New services – granularity of services

• More discrete services which can be integrated with other services (ex. student portals & ETD’s)

subject specific services• support concept of sets• meaningful sets

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Summary

• Aggregated services are an important step in development

• Regional/National services link between institutional repositories and international services such NDLTD union catalogueIR < > National portals <>International services– Promote positive competition on local level– Focus on local (regional, national) helps accelerate

development– Generate funding resources