Library as Thesis Laboratory

Brazilian Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation

In this context, the Open Archives Initiative was implemented to establish patterns and ideals, which allow the integration of information databases. This initiative came to be initially with the purpose of presenting a new alternative in scientific communication. However, the established patterns may also be used as a tool for the integration of remote databases, reason by which the Brazilian ...

The Role of Libraries in Honors Thesis Research: a Library Credit Course as a Model for Thesis Research Support

Libraries exist to serve both the research and instructional missions of their institutions. Supporting the thesis experience of an honors program represents the perfect convergence of these dual mlSSlOns. The pedagogical mandate for the honors thesis experience is found in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education, which calls for undergraduate research experiences ...

General-Purpose Digital Library Content Laboratory Systems1

The last decade witnessed a proliferation of systems specially devised for aggregating and then operating over information objects – e.g., publications, experimental data, multimedia and compound objects – collected from possibly heterogeneous and autonomous data sources. Such systems, to which we refer as “Digital Library Content Laboratories”, are typically highly domain-specific and thus fea...

Eiffel SDL multimedia library (ESDL), DIPLOMA THESIS PROJECT PLAN

An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library

and ArborText. VT funded the development of a Document Type Definition (DTD) for dissertations and theses. The project continued at VT, with collaboration from the Coalition for Networked Information, the Council of Graduate Schools, and UMI, among others. Since 1994, many VT students have submitted their dissertations and theses in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). As of January 1997, VT...