Abstract
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community has been digitised and can be accessed in full on this website. All content is freely available on an open-access basis. Serials was published between 1988 and 2011. In 2012, the journal was retitled and is now published as Insights: the UKSG journal.
Highlights
PhD and other research theses produced in UK universities have long been recognized as a rich source of research findings, yet for anyone wishing to read them, they are often the hardest material to obtain in full text
EThOS differs from commercial ETD services in two key aspirations: 1) to make current theses available, and to generate a critical mass of retrospective theses, covering the areas most regularly requested via the present inter-lending system, and 2) to make downloads of UK theses free to researchers at the point of use
Two key issues that will determine the success of the project are intellectual property rights (IPR) and financial sustainability
Summary
PhD and other research theses produced in UK universities have long been recognized as a rich source of research findings, yet for anyone wishing to read them, they are often the hardest material to obtain in full text. Case-studies are presented annually at the International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).[4,5] To summarize briefly, there are many potential gains for all parties concerned (authors, researchers, supervisors, library/archive staff, university administrators, funders of research) from making theses accessible. ■ a more visible virtual community of researchers ■ metadata visible to search engines (in addition to thesis databases) ■ possibility of flexibility in expressing research results ■ greatly reduced delivery time for theses, and time saved by eliminating extra visits to library to consult restricted volumes or use microfilms ■ improved customer satisfaction, and use of the service is easier to measure ■ savings on cost of binding and printing and possibly storage ■ savings on costs of lending and handling theses
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