Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Exploring the evolution of research products by authors on the cusp of their careers and the cutting-edge of their fields.
Colleges and universities are steadily transitioning from traditional paper and microfilm formats for graduate theses and dissertations. While this move from print-based to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) greatly enhances the accessibility and sharing of graduate student research, it also presents significant challenges for academic libraries seeking to preserve digital content.
To promote best practices and to increase the capacity of academic libraries to reliably preserve ETDs, project participants will develop and share a toolkit of guidelines, educational materials, and a set of software tools for ETD life-cycle data management and preservation.
All Research Grants
Dates: November 2011 to October 2014
Funder: IMLS
Publications
ETD+ Toolkit, 03 April 2017
Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs, 18 March 2014
Recent Hosted Events
USETDA Annual Conference, 26 September 2016 to 28 September 2016
Grant Deliverables
ETDplus Virtual Workshops, 28 November 2017
ETD+ Toolkit, 12 April 2017
Curation Workbench, 25 July 2016
Recent and Upcoming Presentations
Managing and Preserving Complex Digital Objects, 09 August 2017
Introduction to the ETD+ Toolkit, 12 June 2017
The ETDplus Project: Supporting Complex ETD Data, 12 July 2016