Enhancing Catalog Records of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) with ORCID Identifiers: A Case Study at the University of Tennessee Libraries
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2023-11-17
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange is The University of Tennessee’s (UTK) open-access
archive for research and creative work by UTK scholars and researchers; including electronic
theses and dissertations (ETDs) (University of Tennessee Libraries, 2023a). UTK began to offer the
submission of theses and dissertations in electronic format online as open-access content in the
academic year 2002-2003 (University of Tennessee, 2002, p. 20). Catalogers at the University of
Tennessee (UT) Libraries have been cataloging ETDs in Ex Libris Alma local catalog and OCLC
WorldCat database. Between December 2019 to June 2020, UT Libraries participated in the PCC
URIs in MARC Pilot (LC PCC, 2019, October 24). In this pilot, four catalogers and one practicum
student added ETD authors’ and their advisors’ ORCID iDs (ORCID, 2023) to the catalog and name
authority records following the pilot’s guideline and later adopted this practice into the current
workflow. For the pilot, the participants added 371 ETD catalog records to OCLC WorldCat database
and the Libraries’ Ex Libris Alma catalog. During the pilot we observed that a small percentage of
ETD authors’ and major professors’ ORCID iDs do not display their information to the public. The
article concludes with the impact of ORCID iDs in the global linked data platforms such as WorldCat
Entities and Wikidata and its potential for further data analyses on scholarly communication in
Scholia, a tool to create scholarly profiles based on Wikidata.
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26th International Symposium, ETD 2023, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 26-28 October, 2023
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ETD Metadata, Linked data, Open Access, ORCID, Researcher Identifiers, Scholarly Communication