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Opening Cultural Heritage in the Age of OAI-PMH Finding Armenia in the OATD discovery service Charles J Greenberg MLS MEd AHIP Research Services Librarian Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library Yale University 25 th September 2013

Mount Ararat Shadows Yerevan

Republic Square, Armenia 3

http://www.cies.org/specialists/ 4

Armenia in Context (Poverty) 5 Source: http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/poverty-in-the-caucasus-ecoregion

Armenian Diaspora •Active Conflict 1988-2004 •Accusations of ethnic cleansing •Armenia permanently occupying /supporting Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in former Azerbaijan •Continuing tension •Some political minorities call for peace talks Source: http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc 04/EDOC10364.htm#1 6 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_people

1988 Spitak earthquake - 25,000 Deaths Any medical student or physician in Armenia at the time of the earthquake, plus substantial numbers from other countries, were part of an international relief effort approved 7 by the USSR

CIES-Sponsored Trips in 2008 and 2012 8

The Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) discovery service (http://oatd.org) 9

Armenia Diaspora Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Arm enian_Diaspora.png/640px-Armenian_Diaspora.png 10

Mendeley http://mendeley.com 11

RefWorks Thesis Record Showing User- Defined Fields to Enhance Metadata 12

Excel Spreadsheet Created from RefWorks Extraction 13

OATD Discovered Armenian Scholarship by Degree Type 14

Armenia as Main or Minor Theme or Context in OATD Open Theses 15

OATD Discovered Theses Language 16

OATD Open Theses Library of Congress Subject Categories 17

Chronologic Open Access Publishing Trend for Armenia Theses 18

All enhanced records (n=152), along with their abstracts and direct links, are available in a searchable RefWorks shared folder: http://tinyurl.com/etd213Armenia Thank You For Your Attention! 19