ETD Guide

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Contents

  1. ETD Guide
  2. printable version
  3. Introduction
  4. What are ETDs
  5. ETDs as new genre of documents
  6. Why ETDs?
  7. Minimize duplication of effort
  8. Improve visibility
  9. Accelerate workflow: graduate more quickly, make ETDs available faster to outside audience
  10. Costs and benefits
  11. Purpose, goals, objectives of ETD activities
  12. Helping students be better prepared as knowledge workers
  13. Helping students be original
  14. Helping students network professionally
  15. Improving graduate education, and quality/expressiveness of ETDs
  16. Helping faculty
  17. Increasing readership of ETDs, communicating research results
  18. Helping universities develop digital library services & infrastructure
  19. Increasing sharing and collaboration among universities and students
  20. Enhancing access to university research
  21. Searching
  22. Browsing: Classification systems, classification schemes used in different disciplines
  23. Well known sites and resources for ETDs
  24. Brief history of ETD activities: 1987-2007
  25. Global cooperation in ETD activities
  26. Overview of rest of the Guide
  27. Universities
  28. Why ETDs?
  29. Reasons and strategies for archiving electronic theses and dissertations
  30. How to develop an ETD program
  31. Scenarios illustrating approaches, schedules and workflow
  32. Role of the Graduate School and Graduate Program
  33. Role of the Library and Archives
  34. Intellectual Property Rights
  35. Publishers
  36. Human resources and expertise needed for an ETD program
  37. Sources for funding
  38. Costs
  39. Processing charges
  40. Budgets
  41. Plagiarism
  42. Introduction
  43. Types of Assessment
  44. The Assessment and Measurement Process
  45. Measuring Production and Use of ETDs: Useful Models
  46. Statistics and Usage
  47. Measurement in Related Contexts
  48. Guidelines for Implementing an Assessment Program for ETDs
  49. Student Comments
  50. Resources List
  51. Policy Initiatives: National, Regional, and Local; Discipline specific; Language specific
  52. Policy Initiatives: The Case of France
  53. E-Commerce: fee based methods
  54. Students
  55. How to learn about ETDs? (workshops, online resources, helpers)
  56. Importance of satisfying local requirements
  57. Learning from other ETDs
  58. How to prepare an ETD? (approaches)
  59. Overview: writing with word processors and structured editors
  60. Writing in word processing systems
  61. Microsoft Word and Office 2007
  62. Using Style Sheets
  63. Using Plug-ins: Bibliography Plug-in
  64. Corel WordPerfect
  65. LaTeX
  66. FrameMaker
  67. Writing directly in SGML/XML
  68. Preparing a PDF document
  69. From LaTeX
  70. Preparing for conversion to SGML/XML
  71. In MS Word
  72. In WordPerfect
  73. In LaTeX
  74. Checking and correcting
  75. Integrating multimedia elements
  76. Providing metadata – inside, outside documents
  77. Protecting intellectual property and how to deal with plagiarism
  78. Naming standards: file names; unique Ids
  79. How to submit your ETD?
  80. Local support
  81. Typical workflow, local policies and procedures
  82. Becoming a researcher in the electronic age
  83. Technical Issues
  84. Contexts: local, regional, national, global
  85. Networking
  86. Seamless access: Open Archives Initiative, federated search
  87. Production of ETDs
  88. Overview: hardware, software, multimedia, scripts, encoding, document representations/conversions
  89. Page Description Languages
  90. Markup Languages
  91. XML Software
  92. DTDs for ETDs
  93. Berlin DTD workshop
  94. Support for students to write directly in XML
  95. Conversions from Word, Word Perfect or other RTF-compatible tools to SGML/XML
  96. Conversions from LaTeX to SGML/XML
  97. Rendering-style sheets
  98. Metadata, cross walks
  99. Naming Standards
  100. Encryption; Watermarking
  101. Packaging
  102. Backups; Mirrors
  103. Dissemination of ETDs
  104. Identifying: URN, PURL, DOI
  105. Metadata models for ETDs
  106. Cataloging: MARC, DC, RDF
  107. Database and IR
  108. Packaged solutions
  109. DiTeD and DIENST
  110. ADT
  111. Cybertheses
  112. VT DV and other tools
  113. Library Automation/OPAC: VTLS
  114. Harvest usage in Germany, France
  115. The NDLTD Union Catalog
  116. Metadata
  117. Fulltext
  118. SGML/XML Overview
  119. SGML/XML and other Markup Languages
  120. Multimedia
  121. Interfaces
  122. Training the Trainers
  123. Initiatives to support ETD projects in Latin America
  124. Tool kits for trainers
  125. Identifying what is available
  126. Demonstrations, explanations
  127. Initiatives and Projects
  128. Guidelines and Tutorials for ETDs
  129. Specific Guidelines
  130. Creating an online database of problem solving solutions
  131. Help develop a broad local team
  132. Standards, cooperation, and collaboration
  133. Outreach/helping others
  134. Developing Centres of Expertise where appropriate and helpful
  135. Expanding ETD initiatives
  136. Transforming Graduate Education
  137. Managing technology changes
  138. Interoperability
  139. A vision of the future