THE EThOS TOOLKIT IS LAUNCHED

http://ethostoolkit.cranfield.ac.uk

The updated EThOS toolkit was launched on Friday 6th June at the ETD 2008 Conference in Aberdeen during a presentation and demonstration of the EThOS system and the new toolkit. Feedback from delegates was positive.

In addition to full details of how your institution can participate, the interactive Toolkit provides practical [...]

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, Version 2

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/etdb/etdb.htm
This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, conference papers, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet, including e-prints in disciplinary archives and institutional repositories. Note that e-prints and published articles may not be [...]

NECTAR – Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research

http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk
After over a year of plotting, planning and piloting, we have finally gone live with NECTAR – the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research.

http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk

NECTAR is an open access institutional repository, designed to showcase and preserve the research outputs of the University of Northampton.  We intend to hold [...]

Texas Digital Library Repository Is Live

http://repositories.tdl.org/
The TDL Repository contains some initial materials (mainly ETDs and Seventeenth-Century News) from three of the four founding TDL members (Texas A&M University at College Station, Texas Tech University at Lubbock, and the University of Texas at Austin; there are no materials from the University of Houston) as well [...]

ETDs, scholarly communication, and campus collaboration: Opportunities for libraries

http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2008/march08/etdsschcommcampucollab.cfm
C&RL News, March 2008
Vol. 69, No. 3
by Richard Fyffe and William C. Welburn
Electronic submission, storage, and dissemination of student theses and dissertations are growing more common in universities and colleges. For many libraries, ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) are the first targets for an institutional repository program, and represent an [...]

UAuckland to embed CC metadata for theses in its IR

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8079

Michelle Thorne, February 28th, 2008
The University of Auckland has just announced that they have embedded Creative Commons licensing for all new submissions by PhD students into the university’s digital repository, ResearchSpace.
From the repository’s librarian Leonie Hayes:
“At the moment the showcase collection is PhD theses, there are nearly 800 in the PhD collection, [...]