Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program

Australia makes a substantial investment in the production of higher degrees by thesis. Completed theses form an important body of original research data, and underpin the career of many of the nation's leading researchers. There is evidence, however, that there is inadequate bibliographic cont...

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Main Authors: Genoni, Paul, Cowan, Roberta
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Library and Information Association 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35440
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description Australia makes a substantial investment in the production of higher degrees by thesis. Completed theses form an important body of original research data, and underpin the career of many of the nation's leading researchers. There is evidence, however, that there is inadequate bibliographic control of this material, and that as a consequence important research data may be difficult to locate. This article traces attempts to provide access to bibliographic records of Australian theses, highlights the problems with regard to both accessibility and quality of those records, and suggests that these problems might be addressed by an expanded role for the Australian Digital Theses program
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-354402017-09-13T15:21:24Z Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program Genoni, Paul Cowan, Roberta higher education - digital theses - Australian Digital Theses Program - ADT Australia makes a substantial investment in the production of higher degrees by thesis. Completed theses form an important body of original research data, and underpin the career of many of the nation's leading researchers. There is evidence, however, that there is inadequate bibliographic control of this material, and that as a consequence important research data may be difficult to locate. This article traces attempts to provide access to bibliographic records of Australian theses, highlights the problems with regard to both accessibility and quality of those records, and suggests that these problems might be addressed by an expanded role for the Australian Digital Theses program 2003 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35440 10.1080/00048623.2003.10755222 Australian Library and Information Association fulltext
spellingShingle higher education - digital theses - Australian Digital Theses Program - ADT
Genoni, Paul
Cowan, Roberta
Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program
title Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program
title_full Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program
title_fullStr Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program
title_full_unstemmed Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program
title_short Bibliographic control of Australian higher degree theses: the future role of the Australian digital theses program
title_sort bibliographic control of australian higher degree theses: the future role of the australian digital theses program
topic higher education - digital theses - Australian Digital Theses Program - ADT
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35440