Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs)

Theses and dissertations are now created exclusively in the digital environment, and they may be the most important digital content produced by students in their educational careers. The experience of becoming an online author can create opportunities for exploration of innovative technologies, discussion of standards and metadata, conversations about digital preservation, and understanding of intellectual property issues. In addition, ETDs have often been the first collection of critical mass in an institution’s institutional repository program.

CNI works with the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) and Proquest to facilitate the move to ETD programs within institutions.