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Title: Classifying Australian Phd Theses: Linking Research and Library Practices (Report)
Author : Australian Academic & Research Libraries
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 220 KB

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INTRODUCTION This article draws on the findings from, and the methods and approach used in the construction of a database of Australian PhD thesis records for the period 1987 to 2006, coded by the Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines (RFCD) schema. The project was undertaken for the Research Excellence Branch of the Australian Research Council (ARC) and culminated in a report (Macauley, Evans & Pearson, 2009). The database constitutes a valuable research resource in its own fight as a source of data about research training with a focus on actual PhD research outputs (theses), rather than on numbers of people enrolled or completing. The database is significant as it can be used to track knowledge production in Australia over two decades. This period spanned some major policy changes in higher education and research training, most notably the abolition of the Colleges of Advanced Education (CAE) and the creation of new universities under the Unified National System, and also the implementation of the Research Training Scheme (RTS). The project also relates to two current Australian Research Council Discovery Projects by the authors: Research capacity-building: the development of Australian PhD programs in national and emerging global contexts by Evans, Macauley and Pearson; and Australian doctoral graduates' publication, professional and community outcomes by Evans and Macauley. Both these research projects involve coding the bibliographic records of Australian PhD theses. However, where these Discovery Grant projects differ is they were coded by Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED) classification (ABS 2001). In each case, the database has been constructed from downloaded bibliographic records of PhD theses from the National Bibliographic Database, Libraries Australia.