Written
by ETD program experts from several established and well-respected
academic institutions (see below), the Guidance Documents are geared
towards the full range of stakeholders in ETD programs from
administrators to graduate schools to librarians to vendors. As
indicated by the Table of Contents below, the Guidance Documents cover a
range of curation topics that span the lifecycle for ETDs.
Interested ETD stakeholders can register to receive a copy of the
Guidance Documents at the following website,
http://publishing.educopia.org/etd-lifecycle-guidance-documents/.
By requesting the documents, reviewers are voluntarily agreeing to
provide our project with feedback to help improve the documents.
Reviewers may provide feedback on all of the documents or just the
document(s) that prove most relevant to their areas of interest. Our
project staff will follow up with reviewers individually one month from
the date they receive the documents, and will incorporate their
suggestions into the final draft. The review period will close on
December 31st, 2013.
About the Document Authors & EditorsThe
Guidance Document for Lifecycle Management of ETDs
have been authored by ETD program experts from the University of North
Texas, Virginia Tech, Rice University, Boston College, Indiana State
University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Arizona.
The documents were edited by representatives from the Educopia
Institute, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Networked Digital
Library of Theses and Dissertations. Special thanks to Joan Lippencott
from the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) for early reviews of
the draft documents.