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| Title: | Caltech ETD Collection Analysis: Who Accesses What and Why? |
| Authors: | Ed Sponsler
George Porter
Betsy Coles |
| Creation Date: | 3-Jun-2004 |
| Issue Date: | 21-Jan-2008 |
| Publisher: | NDLTD |
| Place: | Lexington, Kentucky, USA |
| Abstract: | The Caltech Library's ETD collection contains nearly 1,000 theses and dissertations. About 270 of these are current theses submitted by students graduating in 2001 through 2004, with the majority being from the class of 2003, for whom submission of an ETD was required. The balance is older theses which have been scanned and converted to PDF as part of an ongoing retrospective conversion project. The Library has undertaken a project to analyze the use of its ETD collection, with the aim of answering the following questions: -- What documents are most heavily used? Least heavily used?? -- How does use of the older 'reconned' theses compare with newer theses? Is scanning older theses worth the effort? -- What makes 'reconned' theses interesting: the subject matter? famous authors? What makes current theses interesting? -- How do users get to the theses via Google, OAI, the ETD Union catalog, others? -- How does known item retrieval (such as author browsing) compare with searching in terms of discovery? -- Where is the demand coming from Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, India, China, Korea, Japan? -- Is demand hampered by known bandwidth problems, as in Africa and the former Soviet Republics? This paper reports on the tools and methods developed to perform this analysis, as well as the conclusions reached. |
| Citation: | In Proceedings of Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| URI: | http://www.uky.edu/ETD/ETD2004/sponsler/etd2004final.ppt
http://hdl.handle.net/2340/722 |
| Appears in Collections: | ETD 2004
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