How would my institution submit theses and metadata to the Central Hub of EThOS?
There are several ways in which Institutions can submit theses to EThOS. • Allowing the harvesting of your e-theses : Metadata and e-theses can be automatically harvested by EThOS from your institutional repository. Metadata and e-theses must be presented in a simple standard form – plug-ins are available for the most popular repository softwares and the standard is defined here • Digitisation of paper theses on-demand : when a researcher orders a thesis which is not already digitised, the system will automatically send an email to the institution to ask for supply of the paper thesis. The institution sends the thesis to the central hub where it is digitised and returned to the institution. • Metadata from The British Library catalogue : if you have submitted title pages to the British Thesis Service in the past, the metadata derived from them will be loaded to EThOS from The British Library catalogue. • Title pages – for those institutions continuing to collect paper theses, EThOS wil
