Cómo publicar una tesis doctoral o disertación
Pedro HípolaUniversidad de Granada, España
http://www.ugr.es/local/phipola
“Publish or perish”…
Disertación, tesis, trabajos de
grado, trabajos de posgrado,
PhD...
Tesis para difusión, tesis como
recurso
La “literatura gris”
El movimiento Open Access
Web personal y…
Bases de datos de tesis
Desde 1938 (UMI)... PQDT (ProQuestDissertations & Theses)
Repositorios ETD (electronic theses and dissertations)
institucionales / colectivos /especializados (arXiv.org, RePEc.org, SSRN.com)
OATD (Open Access Theses and Dissertations)
Recolectores
Google Scholar
OATD
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Desde 1996
Recolector (harvester)
Protocolo OAI-PMH
CONTENTdm, Digital Commons, DSpace, ETD-db, EPrints...
Dissertation Dissemination - History
1938: University Microfilm (UMI) founded
- To preserve threatened
scholarly resources and protect vital
information in anticipation of war
1951: Designated national repository for
US collection of PhD dissertations
1999: Recognized by The Library of
Congress as official repository
of dissertations
Today: PQDT Global is the world’s
largest repository of dissertations.
Content is increasingly international.
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Scope of Dissertation Dissemination via PQDT Global
Most top-ranked research universities in the US – as defined by
the Carnegie Foundation – submit their PhD dissertations and
master’s theses to PQDT Global
Universities such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton have done so for
more than 50 years
Includes works by authors from more than 1,700 graduate schools
and universities the world over
The number of new dissertations and theses published annually is close to 120,000
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (antes National Digital Library
of Theses and Dissertations)
Desde 1996
Recolector (harvester)
Protocolo OAI-PMH
CONTENTdm, Digital Commons, DSpace,
ETD-db, EPrints...
Desde 2001 ETD-MS (ETD metadata
standard)
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Ways to add value to PhD theses (*)
1. Quality of content
2. Metadata (bibliographic description)
OAI Dublin Core, TEF format, NDLTD
standards for DC/MARC (ETD-MS), ProQuest
schema UMI XML DTD, EVSKP-MS...
(*) Schöpfel, J. (2013). Adding value to electronic theses and
dissertations in institutional repositories. D-Lib Magazine, 19 (3), 1.
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3. Format
Searchable, open, and appropriate for
long-term preservation and intelligent
exploitation of the content
MS Office Word, Adobe PDF, XML, LaTeX,
Postscript or RDF
4. Interoperability
OAI-PMH
Valores añadidos 5. Services
Basic and advanced search facilities, different browsing options, visualisation, downloading, etc.
- Social media tools: interactivity, discussion forum and comments
- Federated search and more sophisticated discoverytools
- Usage statistics and metrics, citations
- Video with presentation of thesis
- Print on demand in book format
- Options for copyright protection or CreativeCommons licensing
- Preservation in multiple copies
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6. Future-oriented ETDs repositories
7. Anticipating the transformation of scientific communication
research results and datasets: video and multimedia, images, spreadsheets, music, etc.
non-textual formats: AV for video, mp3 for music files.
legal condition of the deposit and dissemination of datasets and other material
privacy or confidentiality concerns
Valores añadidos supplemental material as an
independent dataset and interconnected to other data
available to the CRIS (Current Research Information Systems)
standard formats: CERIF (Common European Research Information Format) unique identifiers:
- authors (PersID, DAI...)
- structures (OrgID)
- publications (RefID, DOI...)
(*) Schöpfel, J. (2013). Adding value to electronic theses and dissertations in institutional repositories. D-Lib Magazine, 19 (3), 1.
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