Centralised National Corpus of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Július Kravjar Marta Dušková CVTI SR GL 14, Roma, 29. –
Outline Background situation Legislation support CRTD and PDS formation CRTD and PDS characteristic 2 years after implementation
Background situation Slovakia – 5, 4 milion inhabitants Number of universities: ▫Public – 20 ▫State – 3 ▫Private – 13 ▫Foreign – 4 (not operating under Slovak Legislation) Factors of plagiatorism: ▫Internet penetration ▫„Copy and paste“ use ▫Low knowledge of citation ethics Need for a centralized system for the collection, preservation and access of theses on national level Need for antiplagiarism control on national level
Legislation support 2008 – Slovak Rector´s conference focused on the issue of plagiarism 2008 – Slovak Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (=MinEdu) decided to create national repository of theses and plagiarism detection system 2009 – Highter Education Act amendment: ▫all universities (operating under Highther Education Act) must to send each thesis to national repository of theses, ▫each thesis must be checked to plagiarism control.
CRTD & PDS formation April 2010 Creation of: ▫Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations ▫Plagiarism Detection System Content: ▫bachelor, diploma, dissertation and habilitation theses and selected internet recouces Owner: ▫MinEdu Administrator: ▫Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information Technical solution and support: ▫SVOP, Ltd.
CRTD & PDS characteristic Free access: Language: slovak Number of theses: more than Language of theses: slovak, english, german Theses from – full text access (second Highter Education Act Amendment) Before state examination – supervisor of thesis gets Protocol of Originality Check After state examination – public access to thesis in CRTD CRTD - information source about grey literature produced at slovak universities
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Number of theses from April 2010 to September 2012
2 year after implementation Routine operation of CRTD, PDS Continuos development of algorithm PDS 2 awards of PDS: ▫1. place at PAN 2011 in Amsterdam (Lab Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship and Social Software Misure) ▫2. place at ITAPA 2011 in Bratislava (Information Technology and Public Administration)
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