Ideas Challenge Update: Surfacing Thesis and Dissertation Reference Lists through Institutional Repositories

This poster will present an in-progress update on the work done around the 2022 Open Repositories Ideas Challenge, Surfacing Thesis and Dissertation Reference Lists through Institutional Repositories. We are interested in sharing our work thus far, and hearing feedback from attendees about our methodology as we continue this work. Researchers often discover relevant content in part by navigating the network of relationships (especially citations) between research outputs, and tools to support this are built into many scholarly databases and services.

These systems either use structured citation information provided by the authors or publisher of an item, or extract this information directly from its full text. Historically, the ability to reuse citation information outside of a specific system has been limited. However, in recent years a dramatic shift has taken place in the treatment of citation information from publications such as journal articles through the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) and the resultant increase in the quantity and level of openness of reference information deposited by publishers with Crossref.

We will introduce the workflows trialed at our two universities to obtain, store, display, and disseminate (through DataCite metadata) the reference lists from ETDs in our institutional repositories, including unexpected roadblocks.