# Doctoral e-Theses; experiences in harvesting on a national and European level

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Conferences
- Speaker: Gerard Van Westrienen
- Year: 2007
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3015470)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In many countries in Europe doctoral e-theses are an integrated part of institutional repositories, which have been set up in recent years. In some countries they have been harvested on a national level, like in the Netherlands with the 'Promise of Science' portal (http://www.darenet.nl/promiseofscience) .

In October 2006 SURFfoundation (The Netherlands), JISC (UK) and DIVA (funded through BIBSAM in Sweden) started a common project to harvest repositories with e-theses on an international scale and to set up a freely accessible European portal and test in practice the interoperability. The project, which aims at creating a value added service for doctoral e-Theses, will finish in June 2007. In the presentation we will show some lessons learned and the first results of the Demonstrator, an interoperable portal of European doctoral e-theses in five countries: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.

Furthermore, we will present the developments regarding the European coordination of doctoral e-theses through the "GUIDE working group", funded by JISC and SURF.

View Gerard Van Westrienen's biography

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## Lectures

1. [Doctoral e-Theses; experiences in harvesting on a national and European level](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3015470/94f260c29096), 29 min (CERN's player)