creators_name: Sale, AHJ
creators_id: Arthur.Sale@utas.edu.au
editors_name: Wilson, Bonita
type: article
datestamp: 2006-03-15
lastmod: 2008-07-18 09:40:41
metadata_visibility: show
title: The impact of mandatory policies on ETD acquisition
ispublished: pub
subjects: 280100
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: NULL
keywords: ETDs, electronic theses, mandatory policies, ADT, Australia
note: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/sale/04sale.html
abstract: This paper analyzes the data now available in Australia's coordinated Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) gateway to show the impact of high-level institutional policy decisions on population of the individual repositories. The paper shows that just like research article repositories, voluntary ETD deposition results in repositories collecting less than 12% of the available theses, whereas mandatory policies are well accepted and cause deposit rates to rise towards 100%. Modeling of the PhD and Master process in Australia is also carried out to indicate the delays and liabilities to be expected if mandatory policies are applied only to newly enrolled candidates.
date: 2006-04
date_type: published
publication: D-Lib Magazine
volume: 12
number: 4
publisher: Corporation For National Research Initiatives
id_number: doi:10.1045/april2006-sale
institution: University of Tasmania
thesis_type: UNSPECIFIED
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/april2006-sale
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citation: Sale, AHJ (2006) The impact of mandatory policies on ETD acquisition. D-Lib Magazine, 12 (4).
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/267/1/sale_final.doc