ADT (Australasian Digital Theses program)
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Finding Australasian theses following the retirement of the ADT database
The Australasian Digital Theses Program has ceased operation as at 28 March, 2011. The content of that database is now accessible from the National Library of Australia’s Trove service. Each participating university will continue to host their own digital theses and house their own print and other non-digital theses.
This information page provides links to theses-specific searches via Trove. Trove will also provide links to Australian digital theses.
Finding Australasian higher degree theses
The Australasian Digital Theses (ADT) Program ceased operation on 28 March, 2011. The database server has been decommissioned, and the content of that database will be accessible from the National Library of Australia’s Trove service. Each participating university will continue to host their own digital theses and house their own print and other non-digital theses.
History of the ADT.
This program began in 1998 as a project funded by the ARC, transferred to CAUL in July, 2001, became fully supported by CAUL members in 2003 and CONZUL members from 2006.
The ADT officially became the Australasian Digital Theses Program in September, 2005, when CAUL adopted the revised business plan which includes the New Zealand Universities as full members.
From March, 2009 it was effectively subsumed by CAIRSS (CAUL Australasian Institutional Repository Support Service). Help for institutional policy and support may be obtained from the CAIRSS contact personnel.
During 2010, the remaining institutions using the original VT-ETD software to host their digital theses were migrated to their various institutional repositories.
The ADT Website, a central metadata repository, was hosted at the University of New South Wales, but has now been decommissioned (28 March 2011).
Theses will still be accessible via the awarding institutions, via Google, and via the National Library of Australia's Trove discovery service. For further information, see Finding Australian theses.
Resources.
Libraries Australia Newsletter Issue 11 (3 March 2011) | (PDF, 298 KB) - "a special issue of the Libraries Australia newsletter where we celebrate a significant legacy of the work of Marian Bate, University Librarian at the University of New
South Wales from 1995 to 2001 - the Australasian Digital Theses program. February 2011 was an important time for ADT as it transitioned from tailored target to Trove."
The National Library has published requirements for institutional repositories to ensure that thesis records are displayed within the Trove search. How to get theses displaying correctly in Trove: A guide for the research community. Alison Dellit, National Library of Australia (1/10/10)
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Version 2: 5/12/2008 (13/5/08)
ETD list - archive, subscribe etc at http://listserv.vt.edu/archives/etd-l.html