Metadata matters: evaluating the quality of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) descriptions in Malaysian Institutional repositories

• Main Authors: Osman, Raudhah, Mohd Khalid, Yanti Idaya Aspura, Abdullah, Abrizah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: University of Malaya 2023
• Subjects: Z665 Library Science. Information Science
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/104841/2/104841_Metadata%20matters%20evaluating%20the%20quality%20of%20electronic%20theses.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104841/8/104841_Metadata%20matters%20evaluating%20the%20quality%20of%20electronic%20theses_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/104841/; https://mjlis.um.edu.my/index.php/MJLIS/article/view/43740/15645; https://doi.org/10.22452/mjlis.vol28no1.7

This study investigates the quality of metadata records in institutional repositories for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) in three Malaysian research universities. The study employs metrics derived from Bruce and Hillmann (2004) to evaluate the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of 1...