lessons learned – dissonline – building on the strength of universities and a national library

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Lessons learned– DissOnline –

Building on the strength of universities and a national library

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Overview of Activities

• 03/1998 – 12/2000 Dissertation Online Project (DFG)• Since 2001: DissOnline Coordination Agency at

German National Library (DNB)– Advisory Board

• 03/2006-03/2007 DissOnline Portal Project (DFG)– German National Library

• 03/2006 – 03/2007 DissOnline Tutor Project (DFG)– Humboldt-University Berlin– University Duisburg– German National Library

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Statistics: Online Dissertations in Germany 12.06.07

• 43.000 Dissertations• ca. 500 Habilitationen (Professorial Dissertations) at DNB• 90 University Libraries (83 regularly)• Development of Online Dissertations since 2000:

– 2000 ca. 12%– 2001 ca. 17%– 2002 21%– 2003 more than 25% – 2004 more than 31%– 2005 more than 33%

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DissOnline Webportal

• Search Dissertations

• Information for Libraries

• Informations for Authors

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DissOnline Webportal

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DissOnline Search

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Search based on OAI XMetaDiss

• http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/OAI-2.0?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_xmetadiss&identifier=oai:HUBerlin.de:10068

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DissOnline Support for Authors

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DissOnline Support for Authors

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DissOnline Developments

• XMetaDiss: Metadata exchange format for Germany– Via OAI Interface

• URN Usage– DNB since Sept. 2001 for Online Publications– 96622 URNs (status 01.06.2007) registered– 222 Institutionen ( 209 aktively)

• In Progress: Royalties authors receive from online publications via METIS VG Wort since 01.01.2007

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URNs per year

Origin: DNB, 01.06.2007

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URNs

http://www.nbn-resolving.de? urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10011941

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URNs

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VG Wort Royalties

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Activities

• Annual Workshop

• NDLTD

• Special Topic Workshops

• DINI Working Group Eelectronic Publishing– Support for Institutional Repositories– DINI Certificate

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DINI WG EPUB

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DINI Certificate for Institutional Repositories

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SUMMARY

• The strength of a national library:– DissOnline Coordination Agency at the German

National Library / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)

• The strength of universities:– DINI Activities (WG Electronic Publishing)– National Level: Guidance, Institutional

Repositories, Open Access …. and E-Theses as part of it

– International Communication: NDLTD, Knowledge Exchange / GUIDE Group

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Thank You!

• Links– http://www.dissonline.de– http://www.persistent-identifier.de/ – http://www.dini.de/dini/arbeitsgruppe/

arbeitsgruppe_details.php?ID=5

• Contact:– Susanne Dobratz: dobratz@cms.hu-berlin.de– DissOnline Coordination Agency:

Dr. Nikola Korb: n.korb@d-nb.de