Trends in Foreign Dissertation Database Construction and Implications for China
Through literature analysis and network survey method,the article analyses the development trends of dissertation database construction abroad:the rapid development of self-built dissertation databases in foreign uni-versities has laid the foundation for the development of large-scale public welfare and commercial dissertation data-bases,while the construction and development of large-scale public welfare and commercial dissertation databases has improvel the utilization rate of electronic dissertations,which in turn prompts the college and university disser-tation databases to realize the openness and accessibility.In contrast,China's university dissertation databases fo-cus on collection but not utilisation and are closed.Commercial databases are in a bottleneck of disorderly develop-ment,and large-scale public welfare databases are developing slowly.In this regard,China should accelerate the construction of open-access university dissertation databases and national public welfare dissertation databases,and at the same time,strengthen the legal construction of dissertation copyright and raise the public's awareness of the copyright of electronic dissertations.
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