Construction of CALIS dissertation full text service system
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/LM-08-2013-0068 |
| Date | 03 June 2014 |
| Pages | 405-410 |
| Published date | 03 June 2014 |
| Author | Lijun Zeng,Weilian Sun |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,HR in libraries |
Construction of CALIS
dissertation full text
service system
Lijun Zeng
CALIS Administrative Center, Peking University, Beijing, China, and
Weilian Sun
Interlibrary Loan, Tsinghua University Library, Beijing, China
Abstract
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review CALIS-ETD full text service in CALIS-ETD project,
Phase 3 and put forward the prospect of this project.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper involves: the introduction and assessment of
the CALIS-ETD full text service in CALIS-ETD Phase 3; analysis of the issues encountered; and
recommendations for the coming new phase.
Findings – The thesis full text service is a systematic engineering, involving resources, systems,
copyright management, service policies and, etc. Among them, the copyright management is the key
issue in the thesis full text service in China.
Practical implications – The CALIS-ETD full text service supplies the users a mo re convenient
and formal way to reach the thesis literatures.
Originality/value – The CALIS-ETD full text service in the period of its Phase 3 is the first
nationwide thesis service in China. It is the very important milestone of this service in China.
Keywords Resource sharing, Dissertation, CALIS, Full text service
Paper type Case study
1. Introduction
Dissertations and theses are very important literatu res produced by the university.
They represent the research level of the university, and are of significance for other
researchers to refer to CALIS-ETD, launched in 1999, is the electronic thesis and
dissertation project from China Academic Library and Infor mation System (CALIS)
(Zeng, 2013). As of 2012 over 80 institutions participate in CALIS-ETD project, and the
database holds records for over 4,000,000 theses. CALIS-ETD supplies the storage
of e-theses for libraries and both the thesis retrieval and the full text service to readers
in China.
Although CALIS-ETD project construction has experienced ten years, the organized,
nationwide full text access service is still in its initial exploratory stage. By 2012
CALIS-ETD has finished its three phases. In its first two phases, CALIS-ETD focussed
on the infrastructure and data self-construction. In 2009, CALIS-ETD started its third
phase. CALIS-ETD began to cooperate with the foreign dissertation databases via
negotiation.In 2012, with the organization by Tsinghua University Library, CALIS-ETD
initiated itsfull text service. Because of thelimited number of electronicfull text theses in
the database, the service was implemented via interlibrary loan (ILL). As an influential
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Received 18 August 2013
Accepted 5 October 2013
Library Management
Vol. 35 No.4/5, 2014
pp. 405-410
rEmeraldGroup Publishing Limited
0143-5124
DOI 10.1108/LM-08-2013-0068
An earlier version of thi s paper was present ed at the 16th Inter national Sympos ium on
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), in Hong Kong, on 23-26 September 2013, http://
lib.hku.hk/etd2013/
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CALIS
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