social structures in science
DESCRIPTION
Dissertation as a document provides data on new knowledge, but also – encodes important scientometrical information. A study of social structure of science through data found in dissertations and theses provides bibliometrical data for study of national style of science. The pilot study, described below encourages the library community to improve their documentation in this area, in particular, the notation of supervisors and institutions within a bibliographical record. It is proposed that the CBD argue for stricter standards of library/archive record of dissertation. Along with the dissertation data in the new IsisCB platform the social structure of the history of science community might be analysed. Scientometrical study of dissertation abstracts at a local level (ie., Lithuania) will provide a model for future studies of scholarly communication at global level.TRANSCRIPT
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Social structures in science from the perpective of bibliometrical data of PhD abstracts: a pilot project of the CBD
Dr. Birutė RailienėWroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of
SciencesNew Directions in Digital History of Science. July 17,
2014, Berlin, Germany
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• A dissertation as a document provides data on new knowledge, but also – encodes important scientometrical information
• A dissertation record may expose a scientific relation of research-advising both in personal and institutional levels within the certain scientific area
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• Research project was inspired by the rich experience of PhD bibliographical tradition in Lithuania– Printed bibliographies– Card catalogues– E-library for records maintained after 1996– Participation in Networked Digital Library of
Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)– Investigation of scientific schools
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Pilot project aims to:
• analyze possibilities and quantities to register retrospective data on PhD abstracts
• explore bibliographical description practices in selected PhD bibliographical indexes
• explore PhD cataloguing practices in selected databases
• suggest a change in cataloguing practice, which will facilitate data scrapping
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Expectations
• History of science – identify scientific schools • Science policy – encourage (including
financial) informal social structures of science at national, institutional levels
• Scientific school at individual level – a creator of scientific school deserves recollection, which also inspires followers in the future
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Methodology
• To analyze possibilities and quantities to register retrospective data on PhD abstracts
• Due to vast amount of entries the manual survey of databases was excluded
• The research-advise contribution is an optional field in a document description
• Institutional contribution is an mandatory field in a document description
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Field of survey
• MARC format of PhD abstract description includes subfield (043.3)
• Possibility for classification
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PhD issues on WWW
• DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses.
• DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations(NDLTD)
• http://www.dart-europe.eu/About/info.php
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PhD issues on WWW
• NDLTD, an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
• http://www.ndltd.org/
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PhD issues on WWW
• OnlinePhDProgram.org
• http://onlinephdprogram.org/thesis-dissertation/
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• http://www.academicjoy.net/phdcandidate-Theses.html
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International guidelines
• NDLTD, an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
• ETD-MS v1.1: an Interoperability Metadata Standard for Electronic Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/standards/metadata
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ETD-MS v1.1
• This document should be used as a guideline to develop a faithful cross-walk between local metadata standards and a single standard used for sharing information about ETDs
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Variety of records at NDLTD
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Difficulties for global search
• Vocabulary differences• Classification systems• Institutional coverage• Language
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
• This multidisciplinary database is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day
• http://search.proquest.com/pqdt?accountid=146284
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Conclusions
• PhD abstract is a formal source to indicate the teacher-pupil communication link
• Research-advising is one of main formal links in scholarly communication (together with co-authorship and citation)
• Research-advising links