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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.

Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff

“ETDs and Graduate Education: Programs and Prospects” (June '10)
Authors: Clifford A. Lynch and Joan K. Lippincott

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“Institutional Strategies and Policies for ETDs” (June '06)
Author: Joan K. Lippincott

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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

Preserving Preprints for the Long Term: Scope and Challenges (Lightning Round) (November '24)

Thib Guicherd-Callin, Stanford University


Workshop Report Out: National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting (March '23)

Christina Drummond, University of North Texas
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Niels Stern, OAPEN & Directory of Open Access Books


Towards Aiding Research by Improving Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations from Multiple Domains (December '21)

Jian Wu, Old Dominion University
Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Mining ETDs for Trends in Graduate Research (December '20)

William Ingram, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


Bringing Computational Access to Book-length Documents Via an ETD Pilot (January '20)

William Ingram, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University



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Recent Videos

The Accuracy-Bias Trade-Offs in Artificial Intelligence Text Detection Tools and Their Impact on Fairness in Scholarly Publication (May '25)
Ahmad Pratama, Stony Brook University View more information

 

Reflections on Building Community Infrastructure for a Shared Repository Service (May '25)
Gabriela Mircea, University of Calgary; Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
Julia Gilmore, Scholars Portal View more information

 

Re-Envisioning the Digital Repository: Showcasing Our Exciting Islandora Solution (January '25)
Chulin Meng, Lehigh University
Joe Corall, Lehigh University View more information

 

Workshop Report Out: National Infrastructure for Public Access Usage and Impact Reporting (March '23)
Christina Drummond, University of North Texas
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Niels Stern, OAPEN & Directory of Open Access Books View more information

 

Towards Aiding Research by Improving Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations from Multiple Domains (December '21)
Jian Wu, Old Dominion University
Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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