Malaysian Theses Online (MyTO)

Persidangan Perpustakaan Universiti dan Perpustakaan Negara Malaysia (PERPUN) commenced the development of theses and dissertations management system in mid 2005. This project was participated by all of the local university libraries and three of the local private university libraries (MMU Library, UNITEN Library and UTP Library) under PERPUN. MyTO was officially launched on 9th February 2007 with the launching of MyUniNet which has been a gateway to online information resources for the universities in Malaysia.

MyTO is an electronic theses dissertation (ETD) initiative to manage the collection of theses and dissertations of public and private universities in Malaysia. MyTO was established at the end of 2005 to be a central repository of Malaysian theses and to share the collection of theses between academic libraries in Malaysia electronically. MyTO provides easy access and retrieval through search engines that retrieve accurate search results by simple search, combination of Boolean operators, full-text search and provide the browsing feature. MyTO also provides several format of theses access for the user such as abstract, 24 pages full-text and complete full-text.

Objectives

  1. To manage, to store, to preserve and to share the local universities theses collection into a centralize repository.
  2. To facilitate the item access by the university community.
  3. To share the collection of theses between academic libraries in Malaysia electronically.
  4. To increase the utilization of theses to support the research and development activities.
  5. To cultivate the culture of resource sharing.

URL: http://myto.upm.edu.my/find/