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With the conclusion of a massive retrospective digitization project in 2016, the McGill Library has released the metadata of the full ETD collection in hopes of encouraging discovery and research. The collection is also accessible through our institutional repository.

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• Title of Dataset: McGill Library Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) collection (1881-2018)
• Source (URL): https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/collections/theses
• Type of files: .xml, html and .csv
• Date of data collection/extraction: 2017-2018
• Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: McGill Library innovation funds supported the Computational Research Fellowship during which this data was extracted

DATASET/COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

This dataset consists of metadata and (in some cases) full text of the McGill Thesis and Dissertation collections from 1881-2018. McGill holds theses and dissertations written by McGill students from 1881 to present day. The historical print collection is housed in the McGill University Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections. Since 2009, theses have been submitted electronically and are made available in our institutional repository. In 2016, a massive retrospective digitization project was completed, as a result of which the full text of the historical theses were also made available online in the institutional repository. All the digitized and born digital theses are now publicly available at https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/collections/ theses. For more information about the collection, please see: https://www.mcgill.ca/library-theses/about .

The 2018 data set includes only the descriptive metadata and the information to retrieve the full text of the thesis if needed. This was done to make the data more useable.

The 2017 download includes both ETDs and faculty eprints from the institutional repository. To be able to isolate the ETDs we’ve included a correspondence .txt file that lists the PID (unique identifier) of the full-text HTML file with the PID of the corresponding XML file.

Note: Because of the size and number of the files, we have the full data sets available via our public content server. Uploaded to this repo is smaller versions of the sets that can be pulled into data visualization programs.

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

• Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Metadata files: No copyright

Full text files: Copyright Undetermined Note: Given the time span of the collection, some items remain in copyright and some are in the public domain. Copyright of McGill theses remains with the author. It is the responsibility of the user to seek permissions required by law for any reproduction or distribution of theses that are in copyright.

Links to publications that cite or use the data or related publications: https://github.com/rajatbhateja/computational_research_fellowship_2017

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: see file list

Recommended citation for this dataset: McGill University Library (2018). McGill Library Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) collection (1881-2018). Physical collection held in McGill Rare Books and Special Collections. https://github.com/mcgill-digital/Electronic-Thesis-and-Dissertation-ETD-collection

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

• File List: a. Full 2018 data set. The most recent export contains 44,368 records in a single XML file and has only the descriptive metadata + the PID that can used to construct a URL to get the thesis full text. Download [ http://public-content.library.mcgill.ca/digital-collections/2018-etd-data(http://public-content.library.mcgill.ca/digital-collections/2018-etd-data) b. 2018-05-09-mcgill-etd-edit.csv Contains a cleaned-up CSV of a sub-set of descriptive metadata (Date, author, title, degree, department) + the URL to the full text. All ready to play with! c. Full 2017 data set has two parts. The first is a ZIP file - mcgill-etd-metadata.zip - that has a XML file with the complete metadata for each ETD that includes all the administrative data related to the uploading of the files. The second ZIP file in this folder - mcgill-etd-fulltext-html.zip - contains the full text HTML files. The html-pdf-correspondence.txt file contains the PID number for the metadata record and the corresponding HTML full text file. This set of files can be downloaded from http://public-content.library.mcgill.ca/digital-collections/2017-etd-data . d. 2017-etd-parse.csv is a pared down CSV file with only the PID, Year, Department of each thesis that was used in the 2017 Computational Fellowship research project.
• Are there multiple versions of the dataset? Yes
• If yes, name of file(s) that was updated: See File list for details a. When was the file updated? May 09, 2018

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

• People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Sarah Severson and Elizabeth Thomson
• Descriptive Metadata Application Profile

Background: These files have been catalogued over a number of years by many different people so expect some variations.

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All McGill students keep the copyright of their thesis, but with the Final Thesis Submission , they are required to agree to two non-exclusive licences via the myThesis submission platform, one with McGill Library and one with Library and Archives Canada. McGill Library and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) consider graduate theses important sources of original research and make them available in electronic form in open access. The McGill license permits McGill University to make the thesis available in electronic form through McGill repository eScholarship@McGill . The license with Library and Archives Canada (LAC) permits the thesis to be visible and accessible by creating bibliographic records available through the Theses Canada Portal .

By signing these licences, students: 

• Grant to McGill "a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty free license, to reproduce, convert, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate and distribute, and loan, in paper form, in microform, electronically by telecommunication or on the internet, and/or any other formats as may be adopted for such use from time to time."
• "Grant permission and authorize McGill University to permit access to my thesis and make it available to interested persons in paper or electronic form, through the library, interlibrary and public loan."
• Grant to LAC a licence "to reproduce, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet, loan, distribute and sell my thesis (the title of which is set forth above) worldwide, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, in microform, paper, electronic and/or any other formats."

Anyone seeking permissions to use material from McGill theses, must seek them directly from the author, as McGill Library does not hold any copyright in students' work.

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Data sets from McGill’s digital collections now available for text-mining and data-intensive research

By Alexandra Kohn, Head, Copyright Office

Collections as Data is a movement in the cultural heritage sector to make our collections machine-actionable and available at scale for data-intensive research. Inspired by the Institute of Museum and Library Service-funded project Always Already Computational: Collections as Data and its successor, Part to Whole , McGill Library has entered the fray with a pilot project to provide researchers access to datasets extracted from a wide variety of our collections of digitized materials.   

Our digital collections provide access to the digital surrogates of some our fantastic rare and archival materials, allowing users to peruse and search items online. This project expands upon this access by making these collections available to be downloaded and used in a format suitable for computationally-driven research and teaching. With material ranging from files of the full text transcriptions of historical texts on gynaecology in traditional Chinese medicine to the text of the entire run of a late 19 th century architectural trade publication and including the full text of the entire run of two of the earliest McGill student publications, the research questions that can be explored are fascinating and plentiful! 

Here is a preview of the data that is now available: 

Canadian Architecture and Builder  

This data set consists of plain text files containing the full text of the publication Canadian Architect and Builder (1888–1908), which was digitized by McGill University Libraries in the late 90s and is accessible at Canadian Architect and Builder Online . The Canadian Architect and Builder (CAB) was the only professional architectural journal published in Canada before World War I. With both advertisements and articles appearing in the text files, CAB provides a wealth of information on the state of architecture and building in Canada during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Gynaecology in Traditional Chinese Medicine  

This data set consists of XML files from the digitization of a small collection of Chinese gynaecological works held by McGill University Library Rare Books and Special Collections. One of these texts is unique, others are well known works that exercised considerable influence in the practice of gynecology in late imperial China and were reprinted many times. The original digital collection project was carried out in the early 2000s and is accessible at Gynaecology in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Selected Texts . 

McGill Library Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) collection (1881–2018)  

This data set consists of metadata and (in some cases) full text of the McGill Thesis and Dissertation collections from 1881–2018. McGill holds theses and dissertations written by McGill students from 1881 to present day. The historical print collection is housed in the McGill University Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections. Since 2009, theses have been submitted electronically and are made available in our institutional repository. In 2016, a massive retrospective digitization project was completed, as a result of which the full text of the historical theses were also made available online in the institutional repository. All the digitized and born digital theses are now publicly available. Find more information about the collection on its website, Highlights from McGill theses and dissertations . 

The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company  

The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company data set provides access to the full-text XML files of 38 manuscripts collectively known as the Masson Papers, held in McGill University Library Rare Books and Special Collections. The Masson Papers comprise letters, diaries, travel narratives, and other textual documents relating to the North West Company and the colonial-era fur trade more generally. The papers represent a settler perspective of North American places and peoples. The source site, In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company , was created in the late 1990s. More information about the manuscripts and the transcription standards is available on the website . 

McGill County Atlas Project People Index  

In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project , created by McGill University Library in the late 1990s, provides access to 43 Ontario county atlases which were produced between 1874 and 1881 and which are housed in McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections. Of interest to genealogists, the atlases contain indexes of persons residing in each county and these have been digitized and are searchable on the above-mentioned website. This data set is an extract of the people index used by the website, along with URLs for each record. The CSV contains 172927 records with the following fields: title (e.g. Mr., Mrs., Prof.), first name, last name, township name, town name, county name, atlas date, URL. 

McGill Library Chapbook Collection TEI files  

This data set is the result of a Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) project built around the McGill Library’s Chapbook Digital Collection . Rare Books and Special Collections created a TEI XML file for most of the chapbooks on this site using TEI P5:Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange by the TEI Consortium. Level 4 coding from Best Practices for TEI in Libraries was used to guide the encoding. Note that the woodcuts in each chapbook were assigned a classification code from the Iconclass thesaurus to describe the subject of the image. The McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection was created from chapbooks from three special collections in the Rare Books and Special Collections Library. The majority of the imprints (955 titles) are from the 19th century, published in England and the Northeastern United States. There are 74 Scottish and 19 Irish chapbooks in the collection. Most of the collection’s 18th century titles were published in London, England. 

McGill Student Publications  

The current data set includes full text files of the OCR’d text from the full run of the student-run publications McGill University Gazette (1874-1890) and McGill Fortnightly (1892-1896). Digital copies of the full corpus of the McGill Student Publications are available in McGill Student Publications Collection in the Internet Archive.  We plan to add .txt files for the remainder of the publications in the collection to this repository in due course.  The physical collection is housed in the McGill University Archives. 

Please visit our Digital Collection Data webpage for description of the data sets that are currently available and links to where they can be downloaded with full documentation. 

Many thanks to the rest of the project team for making this project a reality: Gagandeep Dhillon, Greg Houston, Awais Mehmood Khalid, Svetlana Kochkina, Jenn Riley, Ana Rogers-Butterworth, and Elizabeth Thomson 

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As members of such a large (and busy) University, it can be easy to forget one of McGill’s main purposes as an institution: scholarship. With over 48,000 thesis and dissertations , a fantastic way to look back on the rich history of our University’s academic excellence is through e-scholarship; the complete archival data basis of McGill thesis and dissertations, spanning from 1833 to present day.

In order to celebrate another year of scholars completing their studies at McGill, the Humanities and Social Sciences Library created a virtual book display featuring a few thesis published this past year. These are especially impressive, as some are from scholars whose works were successful even in unprecedented times. Access this display to see some of the fantastic thesis here .

E-scholarship is an excellent– and underutilized – resource. Created in 2005 in order to increase accessibility to the thesis archives, the e-scholarship institutional repository ensures that research produced at McGill is visible, free, accessible, disseminated, and preserved for future interests – all while maintaining researchers copyright.

“My favorite part about e-scholarship – beyond the fact that it’s open access of course – is the history” Jessica Lange, e-scholarship librarian added, “you can delight in interesting gems [in the archives]. McGill research is really imbedded in the history of Montreal. You might find stories or projects that tell you more about the history of this city than you were expecting; stories you can’t find other places.”

One of the benefits of this free history is the quantity of famous or successful works in the collection. To view some of the more well-known alum on record, such as Harriet Brooks, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, and  John O’Keefe , visit the Highlights from McGill theses and dissertations .

To learn more about e-scholarship and to access the database, visit e-scholarship at McGill .

Have any questions? Contact [email protected] for concerns on e-scholarship or [email protected] for other assistance.

Studies on the interaction between gastrointestinal bacteria and epithelial cells

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• Caballero-Franco, Celia
• Khrisendath Chadee (Supervisor2)
• Armando Jardim (Supervisor1)
• ABSTRACT The intestinal microbiota is comprised of more that 1800 bacterial genera. Associations between this versatile population and the intestinal environment can acquire different forms: mutualistic, commensal and/or parasitic. This thesis consists of two independent projects that explore the benefits and risks of interactions between host cells and bacteria in the gut. In the first part of this thesis, I will present a study examining the benefits yielded by commensal bacteria, also known as probiotics, on epithelial barrier function. One probiotic formula, known as VSL#3, has been used to diminish symptoms in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel diseases. We examined the consequences of the direct interaction between VSL#3 bacteria and intestinal goblet cells. Our findings demonstrate, for the first time, that probiotic bacteria and/or their secreted components stimulate colonic mucin gene expression and secretion to augment the protective mucus layer. In vivo studies revealed that basal luminal mucin content increased up to 60% after probiotic treatment. The effect of products secreted by probiotics was also confirmed in vitro. Among the three bacterial groups (Lactobacilli, Bifidobacteria, and Streptococci) contained in the VSL#3 probiotic formula, the Lactobacillus species were the strongest potentiators of mucin secretion in vitro. Preliminary biochemical characterization of the putative mucin secretagogue(s) suggested that it is a heat-resistant soluble compound, which is not sensitive to protease and DNase treatment. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the complex and beneficial interaction between colonic epithelial cells and intestinal bacteria. In the second project, we characterized the interaction between a secreted protein from enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) and the cell plasma membrane. The pathogenesis associated with EPEC infections is directly related to the bacteria’s ability to deliv
• ABRÉGÉ Le microbiote intestinal compte plus de 1800 genres bactériens. Les associations au sein de cette population diversifiée et de l’environnement intestinal peuvent prendre plusieurs formes : mutualisme, commensalisme et parasitisme. Cette thèse regroupe deux projets indépendants qui examinent le rapport bénéfices-risques des interactions entre cellules hôtes et bactéries intestinales. La première partie de la thèse consiste en l’étude des bactéries commensales ou probiotiques et des bénéfices engendrés à la fonction de barrière épithéliale. Un cocktail de bactéries probiotiques, le VSL#3, est utilisé pour atténuer les symptômes de patients souffrant de maladies intestinales inflammatoires. Les implications d’une interaction directe entre les bactéries VSL#3 et les cellules caliciformes de l’intestin ont été analysées. Il a été démontré en primeur que les bactéries probiotiques ou leurs composantes sécrétées stimulent la sécrétion et l’expression génique de la mucine colique afin d’accroître la muqueuse protectrice. Des études in vivo révèlent que la quantité de mucine luminale a augmenté jusqu'à 60 % après un traitement aux probiotiques. Le même résultat a été observé avec les produits sécrétés par des probiotiques in vitro. Parmi les trois groupes de bactéries (Lactobacilli, Bifidobacteria et Streptococci) contenus dans le VSL#3, les espèces Lactobacillus représentent les potentialisateurs les plus importants de la sécrétion de mucine in vitro. Une étude préliminaire de caractérisation biochimique de la sécrétagogue(s) putative de la mucine indique un composé soluble thermorésistant qui ne répond pas aux traitements avec la protéase et le DNase. Ces résultats permettent de mieux comprendre l’interaction complexe et bénéfique entre les cellules épithéliales coliques et les bactéries intestinales. Le deuxième projet consiste à caractériser l’interaction entre une$
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