Institutional Repositories:

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Institutional Repositories a workshop on
creating an information infrastructure for the
scholarly community 17- 19 July
2007 JOHANNESBURG



The RESEARCH
LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM

In cooperation
with The Unisa ETD
Ansie van der Westhuizen Unisa Library
vdwesapj_at_unisa.ac.za
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Introduction

• Originated in 2001
• Library Senate Committee
• Proposal stages
• Demands from clients

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Development and implementation

• ETD 2003 in Berlin
• Approval for requesting ETD-db from Virginia Tech
• Support from ICT
• ETD-db downloaded, installed and customised

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Submission process

• Online submissions not implemented
• Library staff do submissions
• ETDs submitted together with printed copies
• Guidelines for students
• CDs, stiffies, flash disks, email
• Ms Word, rtf, pdf, jpeg, mp3

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Preparing ETDs for uploading

• Create OASIS record
• Convert to pdf or mp3
• Create security
• Quality control

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Uploading ETDs

• Create login account on author links
• Create metadata
• Add abstract and keywords
• Upload files
• Quality control

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Current status and way forward

• Approximately 1300 ETDs online
• Upgrade of the repository
• Retrospective scanning
• Institutional repository
• ETD-db merged into Unisa repository

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Closure and questions