DIT Library Services contributing to DART-Europe E-Theses Portal.

136 DIT Theses have been harvested from Arrow DIT into the prestigious

European E-theses portal.

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to european research thesis. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER and is the European working group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

DART-Europe collects details of Doctoral and Masters Theses from programmes of study which have no taught component.

The portal provides access to over 15,000 full-text research theses from 271 Universities sourced in 17 European countries.

Open Access Mandate - Another first for DIT

The open access mandate makes the results of DIT's research activity available over the Internet via Arrow. It ensures the rapid dissemination of results, and is free of charge to all end users. As a consequence, the impact of the research is greatly increased and the reputations of individual researchers, Schools and DIT as a whole are all considerably enhanced. The current issue of Update has the full story.

Open Access Week

This week is Open Access Week – celebrating the global reach of free, online and immediate open access to the results of scholarly research from leading Universities and researchers. Further details are at http://www.openaccessweek.org/

The Institute contributes to this world-wide movement with Arrow@dit which is our own open access collection of full text publications from researchers at DIT. It includes journal articles, conference papers, reports, book chapters and theses.

Information about authors' rights to the work they produce is presented in a short YouTube video at http://youtube.com/watch?v=9zVkoovsG2s

Information about Arrow is available from Yvonne Desmond, the Arrow Repository Manager. Contact Yvonne for any other information you require.

Publishing Essentials

All books and reports published in Ireland must be 'deposited' in a small number of libraries - to ensure copies are available for public access. In addition, an ISBN: International Standard Book Number is available for all such works. A book with an ISBN often sells better than one without!

Further details about legal deposit and ISBNs are available at http://update.dit.ie/16-02-09/04news-briefs-PublishinginDIT.php

Dr Philip Cohen

Head of Library Services

Dublin Institute of Technology

http://www.dit.ie/library