Open Dissertations For Libraries & Universities
EBSCO and BiblioLabs understand that institutions are seeking to balance the desire to share open research produced on their campus with transparency and choice for their students. EBSCO Open Dissertations is free for authors of ETDs as well as the participating institutions and is meant to increase traffic to individual IRs.
Who is Involved?
EBSCO has partnered with libraries for more than 70 years by providing quality research content, powerful search technologies, and intuitive delivery platforms. BiblioLabs is a 15-person software company based in Charleston, SC that works with leading organizations around the world on OA, OER, and campus-wide digital content delivery solutions. EBSCO & BiblioLabs are cooperating on this innovative approach to increase traffic to ETD research.
The project is open for metadata submissions from research universities and libraries around the world. With over 200 million searches conducted since 2015, OpenDissertations.org is helping drive new traffic to participating institutional repositories and connecting people with valuable Open Access research from leading institutions around the world.
How Does it Work?
There are three steps to adding ETDs to EBSCO Open Dissertations:
- Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.
- EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org.
- EBSCO sends you monthly reports on record views and outbound traffic to your IR.
For more information on adding your Institutional Repository’s collection of theses and dissertations to EBSCO Open Dissertations, contact Margaret Richter at mrichter@ebsco.com. To learn more about the program, download our informational flyer.