«Improving the Academic Writing Experience in Higher Education» ed. lit. Tatiana Sanches, Maria da Luz Antunes, Carlos Lopes

Analisa-se a obra de Sanches, Antunes e Lopes (2019) que, começando por abordar os conceitos subjacentes ao referencial teórico relativo ao desenvolvimento da escrita em contexto académico, nos convida a reflectir sobre o impacto que a regularidade desta prática pode ter no sucesso académico dos estudantes do ensino superior.Apresenta-se, ainda, a noção de que as competências associadas ao planeamento, orientação, divulgação e análise da informação científica assentam em saber ler de forma cuidada, em pensar correctamente, em argumentar de modo lógico e em escrever claramente, o que, na obra em análise, os autores consideram constituir condição basilar para a transferência do conhecimento.Conclui-se procedendo à abordagem da implicação e desafio que essas condições formativas constituem para a capacidade de comunicar ciência através de uma nova estrutura arquitectónica e morfológica que, se bem que tradicionalmente já existente, desafia agora os autores, mas também os docentes e os bibliotecários, acrescentado que foi o novo e disruptivo paradigma de publicação em modelos associados à Ciência Aberta

Customization of digital library of PhD dissertations for citizens

PHD UNS is digital library of PhD dissertations defended at University of Novi Sad. A web page for basic and advanced search has been developed in order to improve discoverability of dissertations stored in the digital library. This paper presents customization of PHD UNS web search pages for citizens out of academy. The customization includes extension of available representation styles and implementation of automatic recommendations of PhD dissertations. Representation styles are extended with textual representation specially designed for non-academic citizens and visual representation based on word clouds. Automatic recommendations are based on collaborative approach built on PhD download history, i.e., performed on the basis of what other ‘similar’ users have found useful. The PHD UNS digital library logs information for each dissertation downloading. Besides basic information about downloaded dissertation, those logs also contain information about client machine which requested downloading. Those logs have been used in order to prove our customization really improve non-academic users’ experience

A Multi-Faceted Multi-Stakeholder Approach for Increased Visibility of ETDs in Zambia

The University of Zambia has had a functional Institutional Repository (IR) since 2012. However, while Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) are routinely deposited into the IR, the ingestion is not timely, with significantly large time gaps existing between ETD submission dates and ETD IR ingestion dates. We propose a multi-faceted approach that is aimed at providing a potentially viable solution to the problems through the use of effective workflows and automatic classification of IR objects. Preliminary results demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach is feasible. It is anticipated that the proposed approach will facilitate the implementation of a National ETD portal for storing up-to-date and consistent metadata records from Higher Education Institutions across Zambia

Embracing open science agenda through coordinated approach: The Botswana case

A number of countries around the world have embraced the open science agenda. However, in some cases, existing legislative frameworks in most countries typically do not allow much openness of data and science. Botswana is an example of such countries. The absence of legislative framework poses a challenge to librarians, researchers and policy makers with regard to data sharing. This has derailed the country’s development in terms of innovation and creativity. This issue has prompted different stakeholders to come together to work towards changing the current systems and regulatory frameworks in relation to open science and data management.  The Botswana Open Data Open Science (ODOS) national committee was established in 2017 by different stakeholders being public bodies, business communities, information professionals and research communities to develop an open data open science policy that would enable data sharing and openness in science within the country. The purpose of this paper is to share the strategies used to establish inclusive interactions and engagement between stakeholders in facilitating the open data readiness implementation in Botswana. Moreover, the paper will highlight challenges encountered and achievement attained through this collaborative effort

Tripartite Cooperation in Assigning ETDs with DOIs - A Practical Experience of National Taiwan Normal University Library

National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) Library was trying to engage two different vendors to cooperate and set up the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to improve international visibilities of students’ ETDs. This Practical Experience aims to share a valuable lesson through tripartite cooperation, and firmly believe other institutions can benefit from our experience to save time and effort spent on the launch of such cooperation

Global visibility and exposure to drive the quality of doctoral education

Universities worldwide are expanding how they showcase electronic theses and dissertations and their authors. One way this is accomplished is video recordings of “3 Minute Thesis” competitions. Saint Petersburg State University goes one step further and documents the full defense of their dissertations on video and makes the recording openly available on the official university site together with full texts and opponents reviews. This is one part of their strategy to provide more transparency with the goal of enhancing the overall quality of dissertations. The second part of this strategy is the Library of Saint Petersburg State University working with ProQuest to disseminate dissertations to a global audience through ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) database

Using metadata record graphs to understand controlled vocabulary and keyword usage for subject representation in the UNT theses and dissertations collection

An important function of metadata for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) is supporting the discovery of related documents through linking of data values in the fields of metadata records. While benefits of the ETD format allow for full-text searching, metadata is still an important and necessary component of the global ETD infrastructure because it is often not possible to share the full documents in aggregations such as the Global ETD Search for the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. The metadata field that has the most potential to assist users in discovery is the subject field used to represent what a resource is about. Over the years there has been much discussion of the value of author-generated keywords versus adding subject terms from controlled vocabularies by information professionals as documents are submitted to the University repository. This research seeks to explore this problem with the help of network analysis method not used for such analyzes before by building and analyzing metadata record graphs for the University of North Texas theses and dissertations. This paper reports on the characteristics of keyword-based and controlled-vocabulary-based metadata record networks and discussions insights that can be gained from this approach to metadata quality analysis. This research seeks to explore this problem with the help of network analysis method not used for such analyzes before by building and analyzing metadata record graphs for the University of North Texas theses and dissertations. This paper reports on the characteristics of keyword-based and controlled-vocabulary-based metadata record networks and discussions insights that can be gained from this approach to metadata quality analysis. This research seeks to explore this problem with the help of network analysis method not used for such analyzes before by building and analyzing metadata record graphs for the University of North Texas theses and dissertations. This paper reports on the characteristics of keyword-based and controlled-vocabulary-based metadata record networks and discussions insights that can be gained from this approach to metadata quality analysis

A Biblioteca do Instituto de Microbiologia da Universidade do Brasil: contribuição à memória científica

Os Anais de Microbiologia, publicação idealizada por Paulo de Góes, fundador do Instituto de Microbiologia que leva seu nome, foram o mote inicial para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas que evidenciaram o papel de diferentes atores no crescimento da ciência brasileira. Publicação de cunho histórico, os Anais constituíram a linha condutora das ações para a comemoração centenária do criador do Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes (IMPPG). A demanda para uma atualização da memória dessa unidade alavancou novas investigações que incluíram entrevistas com contemporâneos do criador do Instituto.  Através das pesquisas foram revelados nomes de personalidades brasileiras que contribuíram para a consolidação das ciências no país. A utilização do sistema Filmorex, do Centro Nacional de Informação Cientifica em Microbiologia (CENIM) fez da biblioteca da Microbiologia um espaço pioneiro para pesquisas em saúde e lugar de sociabilidade na formação da memória cientifica da Universidade. As pesquisas destacaram a conformação do campo da Microbiologia no Brasil, como o da própria Biblioteconomia, e foram parte de uma linha investigatória que abordou o tema Memória Institucional durante o mestrado profissional do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biblioteconomia da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)

Mapping of ETDs in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) Global database (2014-2018)

The information explosion in the form of ETDs poses the challenge of management and extraction of appropriate knowledge for decision making by information practitioners. This study presents a solution to the problem by applying topic mining and prediction modeling to 441 full-text ETDs extracted from the PQDT Global database during 2014-2018 in the field of library science using the RapidMiner platform. This study was divided into three phases. In the first phase, metadata analysis of the ETDs retrieved from the database was performed to identify the association of various entities such as universities, departments, types of degrees, and geographical areas with the ETDs. In the second phase, 8 core topics namelychildren literature; academic library; information retrieval; archival science; user study; digital library; library leadership; and digital communication were determined using latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) and each ETD was then annotated with the modeled topic. Lastly, a prediction model using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) was created to classify the untagged ETDs going to be submitted in the database under the 8 modeled topics ( a to h )

Using persistent identifiers to track PhD outcomes

The British Library and STFC are working together to connect metadata relating to PhD theses to use of research facilities provided by STFC. Through the creation of a graph which connects metadata across EThOS, the UK national e-theses repository, the STFC insitutional repository ePubs and the Diamond Light Source repository, links between the theses, authors and institutions have been made. This pilot work has the potential to be extended to enhance the metadata stored within EThOS which is administered by The British Library. This work presents an exciting possibility for other institutions as this graph will present a method to enable the bi-directional updating of metadata held across different systems