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Undergraduate Honor Theses

Page history last edited by sk60@rice.edu 2 months, 1 week ago

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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