FAQs

General Questions

  1. What is the UNT Digital Library?
  2. What is in the UNT Digital Library?
  3. Does UNT have an institutional repository?
  4. How is the institutional repository related to Open Access?
  5. Why did I get an error message?
  6. How do I report a technical problem?
  7. What web browser does the UNT Digital Library support?
  8. Whom can I contact if I notice a mistake or have additional information about an item?
  9. How do I contribute materials to the UNT Digital Library?
  10. Do you have a Glossary?

Citations

  1. What citation format do you use?

Searching

  1. When I enter a keyword in Basic Search, what is being searched?
  2. How do I use Advanced Search?
  3. OCR: what is it and how does it affect my search?
  4. How do I clear a search dialog box?
  5. Why didn't my search results list include plurals?
  6. Can I search within a search results list?
  7. Can I save a list of search results?

Exploring

  1. How is Exploring different from Searching?
  2. Can I search within an Explore grouping?

Selecting and Viewing Items

  1. How do I locate page hits?
  2. How do I view the pages of a book?
  3. How do I view the pages of an electronic thesis or dissertation?

Rights and Permissions

  1. What are the rules for using items in the UNT Digital Library?

Usage Statistics

  1. Do you collect data for reporting on collection use?
  2. Where can I find the "statistics" pages?
  3. How do you define "use"?
  4. How is a use different from a hit or visit?
  5. Can you tell what country users are coming from?

Saving / Printing / E-mailing

  1. How do I bookmark an item?
  2. How do I print an item record or image?
  3. How do I save an item record or image?
  4. How do I find out which Partner contributed an item?
  5. How can I get a printed copy of an entire document, book, or map?
  6. Can I "zoom in" on a portion of a map or poster and then print just that portion?
  7. How do I e-mail an item record or image?
  8. Can I e-mail a list of search results?
  9. Do you have persistent links to items?
  10. Do you offer RSS?

Programmatic Access

  1. Do you have any APIs for your system?
  2. Do your APIs require a login or access key?
  3. Are the records available via OAI-PMH?

About Electronic Theses and Dissertations

  1. How long will it be until I see my thesis or dissertation online?
  2. How will people be able to access my thesis or dissertation?
  3. What if I don't want to provide open access to my thesis or dissertation on the Internet?
  4. Is it possible to move my thesis from restricted access to public access?
  5. How do I log in from off campus to see a restricted electronic thesis or dissertation?
  6. If I'm not affiliated with UNT, how can I get a copy of a restricted electronic thesis or dissertation?
  7. What is ProQuest?
  8. Which version of a thesis or dissertation is more authoritative--UNT Digital Library or ProQuest?
  9. Where can I find a UNT thesis or dissertation published prior to 1999?
  10. Can you put me in touch with the author of a thesis or dissertation?

About the CyberCemetery

  1. How can I get a site archived in the CyberCemetery?
  2. Does the CyberCemetery archiving entail a fee?
  3. How long will our website be preserved?
  4. What's the process like to get a site archived?
  5. Do we have to do anything else once we send our information to the UNT Libraries (or GPO)?
  6. Will our domain automatically re-direct to the archived UNT version on the CyberCemetery?
  7. Will UNT fix broken links that appear on the pages?
  8. What about our "contact us" pages/forms that get archived?
  9. What will the archived URL be?
  10. Where can I browse CyberCemetery content?