Developing Integrated Theses and Dissertations System and improving University Information Infrastructure: The Korean Experience
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Developing Integrated Theses and Dissertations System and improving University Information Infrastructure: The Korean Experience
In Korea, more than 45,000 master theses and doctoral dissertations (TDs) are produced every year, but it was difficult to share and reuse them among the researchers and graduate students due to lack of integrated TDs search system and accessible digitalized database. This paper provides an overview of the project developing national Digital Library of master Thesis and doctoral Dissertation (DLTD) system. This is a substantial project to enhance the value of Research Information Service System (RISS), which was designed as national digital library aimed for portal research information service system and developed in 1998 in order to support not only each university library but also all the researchers across in Korea. The DLTD system was designed and implemented as a nationally accessible web based Digital Library service system with full-text of theses and dissertations produced with member universities in Korea. The major goals in this project is to enhance universities' information infrastructure through collaborative work with universities and to increase the scholarship by letting students make use of digital library and share information through developing integrated search system with full-text of thesis and dissertations. During this first year 2000, DLTD project has grown rapidly, opening its service system with over 20 members. This paper deals with various issues associated with DLTD project and shows our experiences of developing system with more than 90 member universities; Korea's unique situations and backgrounds, status of this project, intellectual copyright issues, and related studies of DRM (Digital Rights Management).
2001