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Greetings, Please excuse any cross-posting We are pleased to officially announce successful conclusion of the Lifecycle Management of Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs) project, which was generously funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). In every way the project has been a huge success! We owe that success to our Project Staff, Project Steering Committee, the Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD) and the entire U.S. and international ETD community. Our *Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs* have gotten incredible uptake by the ETD community, with special thanks to the NDLTD for hosting and disseminating the publication. Our *ETD Lifecycle Management Tools Manual* is a wonderfully useful contribution to the field - helping to raise awareness about the importance of using curation and preservation technologies on behalf of ETDs Our *ETD Lifecycle Management Workshop* has also been extremely well attended at major ETD conferences (TxETDA, USetdA, ETD) and has helped to further the use of both the Guidance Documents and the Lifecycle Management Tools. Each of the above deliverables is freely available under open source and Creative Commons licenses. They can be obtained on the Educopia Institute website and very soon on the NDLTD website. http://www.educopia.org/research/etd http://www.ndltd.org/resources/manage-etds We encourage the ETD community and any other interested stakeholders in the scholarly production process to obtain or request the materials for usage and adoption. On behalf of the Principal Investigators (Martin Halbert (UNT) and Katherine Skinner (Educopia)) and the Project Managers (Matt Schultz and Nick Krabbenhoeft) we would once again like to thank IMLS and all of our project partners, including the University of North Texas Libraries, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, the Educopia Institute/MetaArchive Cooperative, and the libraries of Virginia Tech, Rice University, Boston College, Indiana State University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Arizona. -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org @metaarchive [log in to unmask] 616-566-3204