Ndltd Search

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TheNetworked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization that, through leadership and innovation, promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. The NDLTD encourages and supports the efforts of institutes of higher education and their communities to develop electronic publishing and digital libraries (including repositories), thus enabling them to share knowledge more effectively in order to unlock the potential benefits worldwide.

A collaborative effort of the NDLTD, OCLC, VTLS, and Scirus, the NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than four million records of electronic theses and dissertations. For students and researchers, the Union Catalog makes individual collections of NDLTD member institutions and consortia appear as one seamless digital library of ETDs.

NDLTD will usually give large search results. To reduce any search result to a more manageable size, once you have run your search, use the Language limit on the left to only see citations for dissertations in English.

This page is for ETD repository managers or those intending to start an ETD repository at their institution. Most students and researchers do not need to worry about this, except for prodding their libraries and graduate schools into action. Click here to use Global ETD Search.

To contribute content to Global ETD Search, a university, a research institution, or a consortium of universities must build a repository of their Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). For help in setting up a local repository, please consult Manage ETDs. It is the responsibility of local repository managers to develop acceptable open-access policies with their local communities. NDLTD encourages the maximum openness feasible: full text, all data, all metadata, and all multimedia files accessible to all with minimal embargo periods where needed.

NDLTD harvests metadata from participating repositories. It does not harvest text, data, figures, or multimedia. NDLTD organizes all harvested metadata in a NDLTD Union Archive. This Archive, which contains records of millions of ETDs, is managed by the University of Cape Town Digital Libraries Laboratory. The Union Archive itself is an Open Access resource, available to anyone wishing to build a service using the metadata stored in the Union Archive. Global ETD Search is a service built with data provided by the Union Archive.

To contribute metadata to the NDLTD Union Archive, you must configure the OAI-PMH interface of your ETD repository and you should register as an OAI data provider. Most repository software (DSpace, EPrints, Digital Commons, etc.) has a built-in software interface to allow harvesting of metadata by harvesters compliant with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). If you must use a system (such as a custom-developed or in-house system) that does not have an OAI-PMH interface, the OAI website lists numerous tools that will help you to develop software to support the standard.

NDLTD makes its Union Catalog available to any service provider interested to provide its own search interface to the Union Catalog. For up-to-date information on service providers, please consult Find ETDs.

When you become a member, the NDLTD member-management system issues login credentials. These allow you to manage your personal and/or institutional profiles and to renew your membership online. These login credentials do not give you access to any hidden information. NDLTD is an open-access organization dedicated to the free dissemination of research. NDLTD is primarily a forum for academics and librarians to discuss ETD issues, either online or at yearly conferences. NDLTD does provide the Union Catalog, a harvesting service for ETDs. The Union Catalog is available for anyone to use. For up-to-date information on service providers, please consult Find ETDs.

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J-ETD is an open access, peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and hosted at the Scholarworks@UAEU repository of the University of the United Arab Emirates (UAEU). NDLTD already supports the Global ETD Search ( )

Each year many thousands of students prepare electronic theses and dissertations as they earn their degrees allowing them to share their scholarship and to master the tools for sharing research results. We invite you to read the journal to learn more about the theory and practice of producing, hosting, and indexing student scholarship that exists in digital format in the institutional repositories of universities,and to gain insights on the metadata that is indexed across many public sources. J-ETD welcomes articles by contributors from all areas of the globe related to all aspects of the creation, publication, distribution, cataloging, and indexing of original student digitized theses and dissertations.

We also invite you to become a journal contributor. We are interested in a wide range of topics ( -etd/about.html ) and look forward to a community of authors that represent the world and provide rich insights into the creation, publication, distribution, cataloging, and indexing of ETDs. Submissions covering both theoretical and practical applications are welcomed. Significant conference papers presented at the annual ETD symposium sponsored by NDLTD will also be considered for publication in J-ETD.

Charles J. Greenberg

Managing Editor, J-ETD

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NOTE: Options are limited for international dissertations, but start with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), which includes links to and the Center for Research Libraries and EThOS, a service of the British Library which provides the full text of many dissertations after free registration.

DART-Europe

A partnership of research libraries and library consortia working together to improve global access to European research theses, DART-Europe is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and the DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal to find electronic theses and dissertations:

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INCCA, International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art

INCCA is a network of like-minded professionals connected to the conservation of modern and contemporary art. A search can be made by clicking on the symbol on the home page and entering terms, or under a more specific heading such as Articles: information on theses and research is generally included under this heading. The award of a thesis, however, may also be listed under News. Quite detailed information on the subject matter of the thesis is given, including contact details for the author.

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The Hornemann Institute, Hochschule fr angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst (HAWK), Hildesheim

The Hornemann Institute aims to enable world wide knowledge transfer, customising current scientific results within the scope of conservation and restoration to fit the needs of international specialists. The e-publications page gives access to information on electronic publications in the field of cultural conservation, including PhD theses; the link to theses allows further searches can be made. Results can be sorted by material or topic, by author, institution and, within that, whether or not the full text is available and the language. The author or university should be contacted for a copy of the thesis. Searching is possible in German and English.

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Association of North American Graduate Programs in the Conservation of Cultural Property, ANAGPIC

ANAGPIC works to strengthen and advance graduate-level education and training in art and heritage conservation. The site gives links to current member training programmes. ANAGPIC meets regularly to provide a venue for the presentation and exchange of graduate student work and research. It does not host theses but does list student papers and posters.

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University of the Arts London (UAL) Research online

UAL Research Online holds, manages, shares and preserves the research material produced by researchers at the University of the Arts, London and ensures that it reaches the widest possible audience. Items in the collection are globally available and free to view and download by anyone connected to the Internet. It currently contains journal articles, monographs, book chapters, conference papers, conference proceedings, exhibitions, video, audio, images, websites, and selected post-graduate theses, but no student work apart fron approved PhD theses. It is also able to manage software, datasets, workshop presentations, and patents. The repository can be searched under several headings, including creator and subject. This will bring up a list of items and further information when an item is selected.

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