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| E-theses Online Service (ETH Zurich) | |
|---|---|
| Name | E-theses Online Service (ETH Zurich) |
| Established | 2007 |
| Location | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Institution | ETH Zurich |
| Type | institutional repository |
| Access | open access |
E-theses Online Service (ETH Zurich)
E-theses Online Service (ETH Zurich) is an institutional repository for doctoral theses produced at ETH Zurich. The service provides open access to electronic dissertations, integrates with academic infrastructure, and supports metadata harvesting for digital preservation. It connects ETH Zurich with international initiatives in scholarly communication and research data management.
E-theses Online Service (ETH Zurich) aggregates doctoral dissertations and links them to institutional identifiers, faculty records, and national libraries, interfacing with ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Library, Swiss National Library, ORCID, DataCite, and OpenAIRE. The repository exposes metadata for harvesting by OAI-PMH, integrates with Crossref and SHERPA/RoMEO, and supports discovery via WorldCat, BASE, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and major academic aggregators. It adheres to standards set by Dublin Core, MARC21, ISO 2709, OAIS, and the NISO community.
The service was launched in the context of ETH Zurich’s modernization of scholarly communication, building on precedents like arXiv, HAL (repository), PubMed Central, and European repository projects such as OpenAIRE and DAREnet. Early development involved collaborations with ETH Library, technical partners, and advisory groups influenced by policy developments at Swiss Confederation and international statements including the Berlin Declaration on Open Access and the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Iterative platform upgrades paralleled trends at MIT Libraries, Harvard University, and University of Cambridge repositories.
Doctoral candidates submit theses following regulations of ETH Zurich Doctoral Regulations, supervised through departments like Department of Physics, Department of Computer Science, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, and Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences. The repository enforces embargo options coordinated with ETH Library and respects rights asserted in agreements similar to Creative Commons licenses, negotiating exceptions aligned with mandates from bodies such as Swiss National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and university patent offices modelled on United States Patent and Trademark Office practices. Access levels are managed to comply with third-party contracts involving publishers like Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, and IEEE when necessary.
The platform leverages open-source components used in academic repositories, interoperating with DSpace, EPrints, and Invenio ecosystems while supporting metadata schemas from Dublin Core and persistent identifiers via Handle System and DOI services from DataCite. Features include full-text indexing, PDF preservation, format migration in line with PDF/A standards, checksum validation inspired by BagIt, and integration with identity providers like Shibboleth and SAML for authentication. The service supports APIs, OAI-PMH endpoints, and metadata export compatible with ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science, and institutional CRIS systems comparable to Pure (Elsevier) and Symplectic Elements.
Coverage spans doctoral dissertations across ETH faculties, including works in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Architecture, Environmental Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Geosciences, Management, Technology and Economics, and interdisciplinary centers such as Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology collaborations. Collections index author names tied to identifiers like ORCID, supervisor records connected to professorships (for example, chairs named after figures akin to Albert Einstein and historical academics), and include multilingual metadata in German, English, and French to reflect Switzerland’s linguistic landscape including links to institutions like University of Zurich and EPFL.
E-theses Online Service (ETH Zurich) enhances visibility of ETH dissertations in citation indexes and discovery services like Google Scholar and WorldCat, supports compliance with funder mandates from Swiss National Science Foundation and European Commission programs, and facilitates reuse by researchers at CERN, Max Planck Society, ETH Alumni Association, and industry partners such as ABB and Roche. Usage metrics inform repository policy through analytics aligned with COUNTER and altmetrics aggregators like Altmetric. The repository has influenced national open access policy discussions alongside initiatives from Swissuniversities and European consortia like COAR.
Governance involves ETH Library, doctoral office structures, and legal counsel, coordinating with external stakeholders such as Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property and international rights frameworks including Berne Convention principles. Copyright arrangements allow deposit under author agreements permitting ETH Library to disseminate works, with licensing options referencing Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), and proprietary embargo models negotiated with publishers including Springer Nature and Elsevier. The repository’s policies align with institutional mandates and international best practices advocated by organizations like SPARC and EIFL.
Category:Institutional repositories