Transcript Submitting your Thesis Online

UW Electronic Thesis Project
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/ETD/documents/course.ppt
Christine Jewell, Librarian
[email protected]
E-Thesis Project Contacts
• The UW Electronic Theses Project is a collaboration of the
Graduate Studies Office, the Library, and Information
Systems and Technology
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Christine Jewell, Library x35623
Lynn Judge, Director of Graduate Studies Services
Bill Oldfield, UWSpace Administrator
Audrey Sloboda, Records and Theses Co-ordinator
Lisa Tomalty-Crans , IST
Stephen Carr, IST contact for LaTeX
E-thesis Project
• Electronic submission has been an option at UW since
the fall of 1999
• As of October 2006, all submissions are electronic
• Advantages for the Authors
– Fewer photocopies
– Remote submission
– Multi-media option
– Greater exposure of research
Submit your Thesis
• Submit your thesis electronically to the Graduate Studies
Office (GSO) after your academic department has
approved it
• Read the GSO Thesis Regulations
– The regulations page includes links to required paper forms
– and a link to instructions for uploading your thesis to UWSpace
• Upon submission, the GSO retrieves your thesis
• GSO (Audrey Sloboda) communicates with you
concerning any necessary changes
• You will receive an email notification when your thesis is
accepted
Storage and Preservation
• Stored and backed up
– UW server
– Theses Canada (Library Archives Canada)
• Filmed for long term preservation in the
fiche archive of Library and Archives
Canada
Access to your Thesis
• Your thesis is publicly accessible in UWSpace
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Collection
• It is catalogued and linked in TRELLIS
• Your thesis is included in ProQuest
Dissertation and Theses (PQDT), a full text
subscription database of theses and
dissertations from universities around the
world.
Metadata
• Searchable metadata include title, author, year of
acceptance, subject, academic department, and keyword
• The metadata record will include links to the thesis in PDF
and any supplementary multimedia files
• Metadata are OAI compliant and harvested by data
providers around the world
– Theses Canada Portal
– Google Scholar
– Scirus
– ETD Union Catalogue
Open Access
• Open Access Overview
an introduction to the concept of open access, by Peter Suber
• Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving
Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given
as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement
• Creative Commons
• Data Providers
Administer systems that support the OAI protocol as a means of
exposing metadata about the content in their repository.
– Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
• Service Providers
Issue OAI protocol requests to the systems of data providers and use
the returned metadata as a basis for building value-added services.
– Scirus
– Google Scholar
UW E-Thesis Project Home Page
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/ETD/index.html
UWSpace Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/handle/10012/6
Graduate Studies Electronic Thesis Submission
http://www.grad.uwaterloo.ca/Thesis_Regs/EThesis/index.asp
IST Course Notes - Submitting Your Thesis Online
http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/ew/ethesis/ethesis.html
Theses Canada Portal
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/
CARL Institutional Repository Project: Online Resource Portal
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/institutional_repositories/institutional_repositories-e.html