Article
Facilitating greater access to ETDs through CONTENTdm
OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives
(2011)
Abstract
Bound theses and dissertations (BTDs) have increasingly been supplemented or replaced by electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Since 2002, the University of Louisville Libraries have been building a collection of born-digital and digitized ETDs in order to provide free worldwide access to these titles, and to enable graduate
students to include digital media in their works. In 2009 the Libraries migrated the ETD collection from a homegrown database to CONTENTdm, in order to allow for full-text searching and simultaneous searching of other electronic collections. This article will discuss the cataloging workflows for the different phases of the project, including the incorporation of the CONTENTdm records into the OCLC WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway.
Keywords
- Theses,
- Metadata,
- Digital libraries
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
DOI
10.1108/10650751111135418
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Citation Information
Rachel I. Howard and Tyler Goldberg. "Facilitating greater access to ETDs through CONTENTdm" OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives Vol. 27 Iss. 2 (2011) p. 113 - 123 ISSN: 1065-075X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rachel-howard/6/