1. Discovery and Access: A Case
Study of Maximizing Visibility of
ETDs
Hao-Ren (Claven) Ke
University Librarian
National Taiwan Normal University
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2. Outline
Taiwan and National Taiwan Normal
University (NTNU)
NDLTD in Taiwan
ETD in NTNU
Conclusion
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3. TAIWAN AND NATIONAL
TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY
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4. Taiwan
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5. Taiwan Profile
Location: Asia
Area: 36,000 square kilometers
Population: 23 million
Capital: Taipei City
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6. Nature
Culture
Pingxi Lantern
Festival
Kenting
coast
Taroko
National Park
Jadeite
Cabbage
Hualien
County
Night
Market
Traditional
Opera

7. Sun Cake
Cuisine
Sticky Tofu
Steamed
Dumplings
Beef Noodle
Pearl
Tea
Oyster
omelette
Pineapple
Cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HumOLtcZkjM

8. NTNU is located in the heart of
Capital

9. National Taiwan Normal
University
Founded as a teacher-training institution;
students were financially supported with full
scholarship by the central government.
Now NTNU is a comprehensive university
9 colleges (Education, Liberal Arts,
Sciences, Technology, Arts, Music,
Sports and Recreation, Management,
International Studies and Social
Science)
32 Departments
22 Graduate Institutes
About 15,000 students 9

10. Steadily rising in QS World
University Ranking

11. NDLTD IN TAIWAN
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12. Introduction
National Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (NDLTD) in Taiwan
Managed by National Central Library (NCL)
According to Degree Conferral Law…
NCL is the only legal TD deposit library in Taiwan
 In documents, videos, audios, CDs or other formats…
 The Law do not state explicitly “ETD”
 “deposit” is not equal to “open access”
Universities draw up their rules that request
graduate students to submit ETDs for graduation
Students have the right to choose NO open access
Students can authorize their ETDs to Taiwan NDLTD for
open access 12

13. Introduction (Cont.)
Taiwan started the ETD movement from 2000
143 universities participate in Taiwan NDLTD
90 (usually small- or medium-size) universities use
Taiwan NDLTD as their ETD systems
Taiwan NDLTD allows each university to have a
customized sub-systems for submitting, QC, searching,
viewing ETDs
Other universities have their own ETD systems
Periodically Import bibliographic information and
authorized full-texts to Taiwan NDLTD
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14. Introduction (Cont.)
Coverage
Time period: 1956-
Bibliographic information: > 830,000 (-2014.07.31)
Since 2000: > 670,000
Full-text ETDs: > 440,000
OA full-texts > 295,000
Others are retrospectively digitized
http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw
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15. Discovery and Access Functions
of Taiwan NDLTD
Basic Search/Advanced Search/Download
ETD/Export
Hot Searches and Hot Rankings
Citation Analysis
Narrow your results by …(Faceted Browsing)
Subject (Knowledge) Map
Cluster Analysis
Permanent URL (Handle)
Mobile Web and APPs
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16. Hot Searches and Hot Rankings
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Hot Searches
Hot Rankings

17. Cited, Hits, Narrow Results
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Cited
Hits
Score
Download
Favorite
Narrow Resultsby:
Keywords
Institution
Department
Graduated Year
…

18. Citation Analysis
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19. Subject (Knowledge) Maps
Public
Data Library
Mining
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Hao-Ren Ke
Library
Library
University
Library
Service
Quality
Education
Institutional
Repository (IR)
IR
Self
Archiving
High School
Library
SNA
Army IR
Open Access

20. Cluster Analysis
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Digital
Library
Digital Museum
Recommender
Collection
Development
Information Need
Information Behavior
User Study
Public Library
School Library

21. Permanent URL (Handle)
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CNRI Handle
Since 2014/1

22. Mobile Web and APP
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23. Facebook Page
Tips for Taiwan NDLTD
Special topics
Gratitude for authorization
Articles on popularization
of science
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24. Connection with NDLTD
Institutional Member Since 2010
Search NDLTD from
SearchT Taaiwiwaann N NDDLLTTDD
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from NDLTD

25. ETD IN NTNU
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26. Introduction
Start the ETD movement since 2003
Graduate students MUST submit their ETDs
before graduation
ALL abstracts are imported to Taiwan NDLTD
periodically
Students can freely authorize their ETD full-texts to
Taiwan NDLTD
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27. Statistics on NTNU ETD
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4754
2407
3382
625 780
1707
2094
1446
137
626
ETD
Education
Liberal Arts
Science
Arts
Technology
Sports & Recreation
International Studies
Music
Management
Social Sciences
Total ETD = 17,958
Open Access: 89.7%

28. Statistics on NTNU ETD (Cont.)
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Electronic Doctoral Theses
469
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13
282 298
149
79
118
0
73
Education
Liberal Arts
Science
Arts
Technology
Sports & Recreation
International Studies
Music
Management
Social Sciences
Total = 1,510
Open Access: 89.9%

29. Activities for Improving ETD
Discovery and Accessibility
New System in 2015
Many functions will be similar to Taiwan NDLTD
Union catalog for education/normal
universities in Taiwan
Institutional Repository and Google Scholar
Authorization
Import abstracts to commercial/non-commercial
DBs
Taiwan NDLTD, Airiti Library (CETD)
Students can authorize their full-texts to Taiwan
NDLTD
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30. ETD Union Catalog
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Educational/Normal
universities

31. Airiti CETD
Search Catalog
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Full text Download

32. Institutional Repository --
DSPACE
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33. Google Scholar
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Airiti CETD
NTNU IR

34. Next Steps
Allow students to authorize their ETD full-texts
to commercial DB companies
Airiti CETD, Proquest PQDD…
NTNU would like to have the right to re-authorize
students’ ETD full-texts to commercial DB companies
Batch import/upload
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35. Next Steps (Cont.)
Use Linked Open Data (LOD) to expose the
ETD metadata
Linked open data is a set of best practices for
publishing and interlinking structured data on the
Web
RDF format, standard metadata elements,
standard vocabularies
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LOD Data Cloud as of
September 2011

36. Conclusion
Theses and dissertations are essential
scholar outputs of any universities
ETD is a trend and well-established in Taiwan
90% of NTNU ETDs are open access
NTNU endeavors to enhance the discovery
and access of ETDs through multiple,
commercial and non-commercial channels
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