Single-session presentations and panels
Using Social Network Analysis to Understand the Citation Life Cycle of ETDs in Taiwan | PDF (Presentation) |
Yi Shuan Huang, Lee Chen Chen, Bao-Tzuoh Huang |
Human Subjects Protection based ETDs in the OATD Resource Discovery Service | PDF (Presentation) PDF (Paper) |
Sangeeta Narang, Charles J Greenberg |
NDLTD Committee Meetings | Intro PDF Union Catalog PDF |
Edward Alan Fox |
OhioLINK ETD Center Users Group | |
Emily Alinder Flynn |
Bridging Information Disparities through ETDs in Academic Libraries: Case Studies from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh | PDF (Presentation) PDF (Paper) |
Kamani Perera, Md. Zillur Rahman |
National Level ETD Efforts in Shodhganga, a Platform of Research Output in Indian Universities: A Comparative Study | |
Sukanta Kumar Patra, Mousumi Das |
Mapping the Landscape of ETDs in IRs: Results from the Institutional Repository Policy Survey | |
Christy Shorey, G.W. Swicord |
Exploratory Practice on ETDs for Better Information Literacy | PDF (Presentation) |
Hepsibah Sharmil Francis, Rama Vaidyanathan, Prathap Das, Anindita Sengupta |
Back to the Blackboard: Connecting Thesis and Dissertation Students to Resources through a Web-based Course | |
Nathalia Bauer, Wendy Cartier |
The Development and Prospect of ETDs of Taiwan and Hong Kong: Case Study from National Central Library (NCL) of Taiwan and Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | |
Hung-Te Wang, Jeff Liu, An-Chi Lin, Ting-Yu Wu |
Thesis and Dissertation Boot Camp | PDF (Presentation) |
Emily Frances Redd, Virginia Foley |
Current Trends and Progress of Institutional Repositories in BRICS Countries | PDF (Presentation) PDF (Paper) |
Madaiah Krishnamurthy |
Using Islandora Digital Repository for Developing the CUHK ETD Collection | |
Jeff Liu, Louisa Lam |
Challenges and Opportunities: Undergraduate Honors Theses in the IR@UF | PDF (Presentation) |
G.W. Swicord, Jr., Christy Shorey |
Fostering Connections: Creation of an IR Managers Forum | |
Pamela Andrews, Anna J Dabrowski, Erin Jerome, Christy Shorey |
Purdue Graduate School Improves Thesis Authoring and Submission Processes with Overleaf | PDF (Presentation) PDF (Paper) |
Mary Anne Baynes, Shelly Miller |
Multimedia and Non-text Research in Theses and EThOS Webservice | PDF (Presentation) |
Coral Manton |
Fuzzy Based Quality of Service (QoS) for Institutional Repositories | |
Parveen Babbar, Ramesh C Gaur, Somesh Vishwakarma |
Ensuring Zero Plagiarism through APA Citation Standards, a Genuine Originality Expected to the Doctoral Theses: India Scenario | |
Surendra Tryambakrao Kale |
Tracing Our Global Connections: A Bibliographic Analysis of UNT Digital Library Item Usage Among Global ETDs | |
Pamela Andrews, Daniel Alemneh, Karen Harker, Janette Klein |
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Repositories: A Case Study of Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana | PDF (Paper) PDF (Presentation) |
Sunder Singh |
ETDs in Languages Other Than Portuguese at PUC-Rio | PDF (Paper) PDF (Presentation) |
Ana Maria Beltran Pavani |
Exploring Open Source Solutions in the Management of ETD Processes | PDF (Presentation) PDF (Paper) |
Chetan Sudhakar Sonawane |
Hometown ETDs Make it to the Big Time: The Collective Power of Collaboration and Consortiums to Connect | PDF (Presentation) |
Emily Flynn, Teresa Green, Stephanie Larrison, Billie Peterson-Lugo |
ETD Administrator User Group Meeting | |
Austin McLean |
Scenarios for Advanced Services in an ETD Digital Library | PDF (Paper) PDF (Presentation) |
Yufeng Ma, Tingting Jiang, Chandani Shrestha, Edward Alan Fox, Jian Wu, Clyde Lee Giles |
Passive ORCiD Adoption in ETDs at Research Universities | PDF (Presentation) |
Shelley E. Barba, Colleen Lyon, Santi Thompson |
Creative Writing and ETDs from 3 Perspectives: a Campus, a Professional Association and a Disseminator | PDF (Presentation) |
Marlene Coles, Valeria Caviness, David Fenza |
When the Dissertation Is Not the Main Event | |
Sally Evans, Jeri Wieringa |
Institutional repository, Digital Theses and Research Data for Improving Visibility: the Case of the Peruvian University for Applied Sciences | |
Miguel Saravia Lopez de Castilla, Liliana Eléspuru Briceño, Libio Huaroto, André Maguiña-Ballón, Agnes Dibos Muñoz, Said Castro |
Vireo Users Group Meeting | |
Stephanie Larrison, Billie Peterson-Lugo |
Creation of Dynamic Ontologies for Graphical Representation in User Interface using NeOn in Shodhganga | |
Manoj K Kumar |
Poster presentations
Why open access or not? | |
Yi Shuan Huang, Lee Chen Chen, Bao-Tzuoh Huang |
Evolving ETD Programs: Best Practices to Facilitate Content Creation, Formatting, Reviewing, Publication, and Preservation | |
Larry L Tague, Shirley A. Hancock |
Trends in the Use of Authorship Tools for Dissertations at Caltech | |
Katherine Johnson |
Science and Technology Theses in Shodhganga: Analytical Study | PDF (Poster) PDF (Presentation) |
Manoj K Kumar, Archita M Muchhadia |
Embargo Periods and External Publication for History Dissertations | |
Midge Coates |
ETDS On Opposite Coasts: Comparisons and Connections Between Two Private American Universities and the Transition from Print to Electronic Theses and Dissertations | |
Michele Gibney, Jaime Goldman |
Conference workshops & tutorials
ETDs for Rookies – Newcomer’s Session | Agenda PDF Introduction PDF History of ETDs PDF Implementation PDF ETD Administrator PDF ETDdb PDF Preservation PDF Metadata, Union Catalog PDF OhioLINK PDF TxETDA, TDL PDF Closing PDF |
John H Hagen, Edward Fox, Austin McLean, Katherine Skinner, Anne Lawrence, Emily Flynn, Shelley Barba |
Streamlining ETD Processing using Vireo 4.0 Open Source ETD Submission and Management System | |
Stephanie Larrison, Billie Peterson-Lugo, Christopher Starcher |
Managing and Preserving Data and Complex Digital Objects Workshop | |
Katherine Skinner, Sam Meister |
Plenary presentations
3-Minute Thesis Competition | |
Lou Ann Haines |
Re-thinking Institutional Repositories and Evolving Ideas about ETDs [Keynote Address] | |
Clifford Lynch |
Independent Publishing: Returning Control to Academic Authors & Institutions in All Stages of the Academic Life Cycle [Luncheon Talk] | |
Daniel Paul Berze |
ETD2017 Symposium Closing Session | |
Edward Alan Fox |
ETD2018 Symposium Announcement | |
Hao-Ren Ke, Ting-Yu Wu |
USETDA 2018 Conference Announcement | |
Matthew Conway Mariner |

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