Purpose
Preserve undergraduate research and make more widely accessible.
See Open Invitation to undergraduates
Beginning collection with History Department
Request honors thesis deposit to the IR
Ingesting honors theses
- Use metadata import tool to deposit papers. (i.e. No custom submission form has been created for this collection.) or the SAF / ZIP batch import tool.
- Deposit to IR collection: Rice University Undergraduate Research
- Files must be less than 15 MB.
- Include permission form (i.e. PDF of email) in "liscense" bundle.
- DOIs can be assigned upon request.
Metadata
Use following Metadata Mapping from deposit form.
Supplied by Author |
Dspace Element |
Email Address * |
N/A |
First Name Last Name |
dc.creator (Last, First)
|
Title of the Thesis |
dc.title |
Date of Thesis Submission
(Month Day Year )
|
dc.date.issued (confirm matches cover page and not date of request). Format YYYY-MM-DD
|
Academic Department |
thesis.degree.department |
Advisor's Name |
dc.contributor.advisor (see note below)
|
Keywords |
dc.subject |
Abstract |
dc.description.abstract |
DOI |
Upon request DOI can be created, provided paper is not already published or assigned DOI |
Copyright Statement |
dc.rights (e.g. Copyright is held by author) |
Boilerplate Info
|
dc.language.iso (e.g. eng) |
|
dc.type.genre=Thesis |
|
dc.type.dcmi=Text |
|
thesis.degree.discipline (e.g. Humanities) |
|
thesis.degree.level=Undergraduate |
|
thesis.degree.grantor=Rice University |
|
dc.format.extent ( e.g. 50pp ) |
|
dc.publisher=Rice University (appears on simple record page)
|
|
dc.identifier.citation=
dc.creator. "dc.title." thesis.degree.level thesis, thesis.degree.grantor, dc.date.issued. dc.identifier.uri
Ex: Meléndez, Mónica Alicia. "Remembering and Forgetting Salvador Allende: An Examination of Institutional Memories in Post-Authoritarian Chile.” Undergraduate thesis, Rice University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/90432.
note: The word "thesis" after the element thesis.degree.level is hard coded.
To be added after item added to repository (so URL/DOI can be included)
|
Notes:
* for internal information only, not part of IR record
Additional metadata (boilerplate info) is required for each submission as listed above and can be created by library staff at time of deposit.
PDF normalization steps
- Confirm PDF has been OCRd and less than 15MB
- File naming
- replacing any blank spaces with dashes
- remove any special characters, such as . \ / : * ? " < > | % ( )
- shorten if longer than 32 characters
- Embed basic metadata to PDF (Author, Title, Source, Copyright status)
- Tag PDF for accessibility ADA compliance, see https://libguides.rice.edu/accessiblePDF
example:
- After deposit, follow up with author by email supplying IR item link (may wish to wait a day so thumbnail appears).
Related resources
Finding and Using Images in Publications: Home
http://libguides.rice.edu/c.php?g=436708&p=2976983
Scholarly Communications: Copyright/Author Rights
http://libguides.rice.edu/c.php?g=45087&p=286742
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