[IRTalk] Theses and Institutional Repository

Fri Apr 21 15:57:59 SAST 2017

Dear Tyson

I am responsible for the Unisa Institutional Repository (http://uir.unisa.ac.za) which is an open access repository. We are allowing linking of our ETDs by other institutional repositories, but not uploading of the fulltext. In other words, a record  may be created in the other repository, but a link should be created to the handle in the UnisaIR from where the full-text/ object may be accessed.

Regards

Ansie van der Westhuizen
Non-commercial Digital Developer
IR Content Management: Collection Development
Unisa Library
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mailto:vdwesapj at unisa.ac.za

-----Original Message-----
From: IRTalk [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] On Behalf Of Bruce Becker
Sent: 21 April 2017 2:22 PM
To: Tyson Mabunda <ttmabunda at uj.ac.za>
Cc: irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
Subject: Re: [IRTalk] Theses and Institutional Repository

Hi Tyson,

I'm not a librarian, but I bump into this kind of issue all the time, and it mostly raises questions of uniqueness and discoverability (others have commented on the IP aspects)

In principle there shouldn't be a problem with depositing the object in more than one repository - as long as the DOI is the same, and the metadata is clean.

I stand to be corrected on this, but for example the DataCite schema allows you to deposit identical objects https://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-3.1/example/datacite-example-relationTypeIsIdenticalTo-v3.0.xml
- this could be used...

The whole point of having DOIs is to ensure that objects are persistently available even if they move or if  copies are destroyed, so it would make sense to have them in more than one library. You need to make sure that you are however describing a _copy_ of the object, and not depositing a new object, so that OAI-PMH is not confused, etc.

Maybe have a look at https://data.datacite.org/ and https://schema.datacite.org/

On 21 April 2017 at 14:07, Tyson Mabunda <ttmabunda at uj.ac.za> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
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> UJ staff member completed her Thesis (year:2010) at TUT as TUT 
> student, and now she want her Thesis available on the UJ repository.
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> How do you handle such request?
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> NB: the copyright owner of the Thesis is TUT
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> Univ of Namibia –example: http://41.205.129.132/handle/11070/1910
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> Let’s talk
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> Kind regards,
> Tyson Mabunda
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> UJ Institutional Repository
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> University of Johannesburg
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> 0115592688
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