[Web4lib] Electronic Library

[Cary Gordon]

I second the dSpace suggestion. It isn't fancy, but it isn't hard to set up
and it is flexible.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Thomas Dowling <tdowling at ohiolink.edu>wrote:

> On 07/23/2009 11:30 AM, Suelzer, Elizabeth wrote:
> > Hi all-
> >
> >
> >
> > My library would like to create a full-text online database for our
> > senior design papers and master's theses. We currently have about 200
> > senior design projects and 300 masters theses.  We don't have a lot
> > (any) money to spend on this, so I was looking at either creating one
> > from scratch or using an open source option such as Greenstone.
> > Greenstone seems the most feasible for me since it works pretty much
> > out-of-the-box.
>
>
> There are lots of electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) sites using
> DSpace,
> and also Virginia Tech's ETD-db software as a repository, so you might look
> at
> either of these also.  I'm not familiar with any that use Greenstone, but
> that
> doesn't mean there are none.
>
> Let me strongly recommend that, whatever platform you pick, you enable its
> OAI-PMH server support and register it with openaccess.org and
> opendoar.org.
> And if at all possible, enable the ETD-MS metadata format in addition to
> Dublin
> Core.  Good tips at <http://www.ndltd.org/join/ndltd-union-catalog-project
> >.
>
>
>
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> Thomas Dowling
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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>
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