Discovery and Access: A Case Study of Maximizing Visibility of

ETDsHao-Ren (Claven) Ke

University Librarian

National Taiwan Normal University

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Outline

Taiwan and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)

NDLTD in Taiwan

ETD in NTNU

Conclusion

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TAIWAN AND NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY

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Taiwan

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Taiwan Profile

Location: Asia

Area: 36,000 square kilometers

Population: 23 million

Capital: Taipei City

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Nature

Culture

Pingxi Lantern Festival

Kenting coast

Taroko National Park

Jadeite Cabbage

Hualien County

Night Market

Traditional Opera

Cuisine

Sticky Tofu

Steamed Dumplings

Beef Noodle

Pearl Tea

Oyster omelette 

Pineapple Cake

Sun Cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HumOLtcZkjM

NTNU is located in the heart of Capital

National Taiwan Normal University

Founded as a teacher-training institution; students were financially supported with full scholarship by the central government. Now NTNU is a comprehensive university9 colleges (Education, Liberal Arts,Sciences, Technology, Arts, Music,Sports and Recreation, Management,International Studies and SocialScience)

32 Departments22 Graduate Institutes

About 15,000 students 9

Steadily rising in QS World University Ranking

NDLTD IN TAIWAN

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Introduction

National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) in Taiwan

Managed by National Central Library (NCL)

According to Degree Conferral Law…NCL is the only legal TD deposit library in TaiwanIn documents, videos, audios, CDs or other formats…The Law do not state explicitly “ETD”“deposit” is not equal to “open access”

Universities draw up their rules that request graduate students to submit ETDs for graduationStudents have the right to choose NO open accessStudents can authorize their ETDs to Taiwan NDLTD for

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Introduction (Cont.)

Taiwan started the ETD movement from 2000

143 universities participate in Taiwan NDLTD90 (usually small- or medium-size) universities use Taiwan NDLTD as their ETD systemsTaiwan NDLTD allows each university to have a

customized sub-systems for submitting, QC, searching, viewing ETDs

Other universities have their own ETD systemsPeriodically Import bibliographic information and

authorized full-texts to Taiwan NDLTD

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Introduction (Cont.)

CoverageTime period: 1956-

Bibliographic information: > 830,000 (-2014.07.31)Since 2000: > 670,000

Full-text ETDs: > 440,000 OA full-texts > 295,000Others are retrospectively digitized

http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw

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Discovery and Access Functions of Taiwan NDLTD

Basic Search/Advanced Search/Download ETD/Export

Hot Searches and Hot Rankings

Citation Analysis

Narrow your results by …(Faceted Browsing)

Subject (Knowledge) Map

Cluster Analysis

Permanent URL (Handle)

Mobile Web and APPs

Hot Searches and Hot Rankings

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Hot Searches

Hot Rankings

Cited, Hits, Narrow Results

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CitedHitsScoreDownloadFavorite

Narrow Resultsby:KeywordsInstitutionDepartmentGraduated Year…

Citation Analysis

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Subject (Knowledge) Maps

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Hao-Ren Ke

LibraryLibrary

UniversityLibrary

ServiceQuality

PublicLibraryData

Mining

Education

InstitutionalRepository (IR)

IR

SelfArchiving

High SchoolLibrary

SNA

Army IR

Open Access

Cluster Analysis

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DigitalLibrary

Digital Museum

RecommenderCollection

Development

Information Need

Information BehaviorUser Study

Public Library

School Library

Permanent URL (Handle)

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CNRI Handle Since 2014/1

Mobile Web and APP

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Facebook Page

Tips for Taiwan NDLTD

Special topics

Gratitude for authorization

Articles on popularization of science

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Connection with NDLTD

Institutional Member Since 2010

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Search NDLTD fromTaiwan NDLTDSearch Taiwan NDLTD

from NDLTD

ETD IN NTNU

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Introduction

Start the ETD movement since 2003

Graduate students MUST submit their ETDs before graduation

ALL abstracts are imported to Taiwan NDLTD periodically

Students can freely authorize their ETD full-texts to Taiwan NDLTD

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Statistics on NTNU ETD

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4754

2407

3382

1446

2094

1707

625 780 137 626 ETD

EducationLiberal ArtsScienceArtsTechnologySports & RecreationInternational Studies MusicManagementSocial Sciences

Open Access: 89.7%

Total ETD = 17,958

Statistics on NTNU ETD (Cont.)

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469

298 282

79

149

118

13 29 73

Electronic Doctoral Theses

EducationLiberal ArtsScienceArtsTechnologySports & RecreationInternational Studies MusicManagementSocial Sciences

Total = 1,510

Open Access: 89.9%

Activities for Improving ETD Discovery and Accessibility

New System in 2015Many functions will be similar to Taiwan NDLTD

Union catalog for education/normal universities in Taiwan

Institutional Repository and Google Scholar

AuthorizationImport abstracts to commercial/non-commercial DBsTaiwan NDLTD, Airiti Library (CETD)

Students can authorize their full-texts to Taiwan NDLTD

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ETD Union Catalog

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Educational/Normal universities

Airiti CETD

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Search Catalog

Full text Download

Institutional Repository -- DSPACE

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Google Scholar

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Airiti CETDNTNU IR

Next Steps

Allow students to authorize their ETD full-texts to commercial DB companies

Airiti CETD, Proquest PQDD…NTNU would like to have the right to re-authorize

students’ ETD full-texts to commercial DB companiesBatch import/upload

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Next Steps (Cont.)

Use Linked Open Data (LOD) to expose the ETD metadata

Linked open data is a set of best practices for publishing and interlinking structured data on the Web

RDF format, standard metadata elements, standard vocabularies

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LOD Data Cloud as of September 2011

Conclusion

Theses and dissertations are essential scholar outputs of any universities

ETD is a trend and well-established in Taiwan

90% of NTNU ETDs are open access

NTNU endeavors to enhance the discovery and access of ETDs through multiple, commercial and non-commercial channels

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