Accepted Papers
Session 1: Realising the Vision of ETDs
Thursday 14th June, 11.00 - 12.30, Room: X
Chair: Susan Copeland, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland
Gail McMillan : Toward the Future with Retrosperpective Hindsight.
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Maurice Vanderfeesten, Gerard van Westrienen : A Portal for Doctoral e-Theses in Europe: Lessons learned from an interoperable demonstrator project for five European countries.
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Peter Sefton : An integrated approach to preparing, publishing, presenting and preserving theses.
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Session 2: Understanding the Issues
Thursday 14th June, 11.00 - 12.30, Room: IX
Chair: Sharon Reeves, Library and Archives of Canada
Scott Eldredge, Austin Mclean : How to Start an ETD Program: Tools Review and Lessons Learned.
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Ana Pavani : Looking at ETDs from Different Points of View.
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Seungwon Yang, Sanghee Oh, Jeffrey P. Pomerantz, Barbara M Wildemuth, Edward A. Fox : Improving Education and Understanding of NDLTD.
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Session 3: ETDs and Institutional Repositories
Thursday 14th June, 11.00 - 12.30, Room: IV
Chair: Marianne Moe, NTNU, Norway
Martin Halbert : Integrating ETD Services into Campus Institutional Repository Infrastructures Using Fedora.
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Adam Mikael, Tim Brace, John Leggett, Mark McFarland : Developing a Common Submission System for ETDs in the Texas Digital Library.
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Maitrayee Ghosh : ETDs in India: Towards a national repository with value added e-theses service.
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Session 4: Implementation Solutions
Friday 15th June, 10.30 - 12.00, Room: X
Chair: Susanne Dobratz, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Craig Thomas : PETE: Planning for E-Thesis Enhancement at MIT.
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Uwe Müller, Robin Malitz, Manuel Klatt-Kafemann, Susanne Dobratz, Peter Schirmbacher : A Property Based Workflow System for E-Theses.
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Rogerio Toshiaki Kondo, Maria de Lourdes Rebucci Lirani, Vinicius Augusto Taglatti Zani, Caetano Train Junior, Paulo Cesar Masiero, Fabio Kon : Using Ajax to integrate institutional electronic theses and dissertation respository with corporate systems at University of São Paulo.
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Session 5: Discovery and Access
Friday 15th June, 10.30 - 12.00, Room: IX
Chair: Ana Pavani, LAMBDA — DEE, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Sharon Reeves : User-Generated Metadata for ETDs: Added Value for Libraries.
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Livia Vasas, Austin McLean : ETDs and the Importance of Discoverability.
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John H. Hagen : Building Effective Discovery Tools for Academic Promotion and Tenure Evidence: the Added Value of ETD and Institutional Repository Metadata, Citation and Access.
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Session 6: Institutional and Country Initiatives
Friday 15th June, 10.30 - 12.00, Room: IV
Chair: Eric Van de Velde, California Institute of Technology, USA
K V Satyanarayana, B Ramesh Babu : Trends in the development of E-Theses in India: issues, contraints and solutions.
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Izumi Sugita, Yuko Murakami : Thesis publication via institutional repositories in Japan: a preliminary survey and case studies.
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R. Mishra, S.K. Vijaianand, Noufal P.P., Gaurav Shukla : Challenges and Innovations: Establishing an ETD @ Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India.
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Session 7: National Services
Friday 15th June, 13.30 - 15.00, Room: X
Chair: Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech, USA
Natascha Schumann : DissOnlne Portal.
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Susan Copeland, Anthony Troman : EThOS: from a project to a national service.
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Barbara Signori : e-Diss.ch: collecting and archiving online theses at the Swiss National Library.
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Session 8: Next Generation ETDs
Friday 15th June, 13.30 - 15.00, Room: IX
Chair: Joan Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information, USA
David Lawrence, Peter Berkesand : Making the most of Electronically Published Theses: Combining Text with Video, Sound and Data.
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Joan F. Cheverie, Austin McLean : Social Science Data and ETDs: Opportunities and Challenges.
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Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox : Using Concept Maps in NDLTD as a Cross-Language Summarization Tool for Computing-Related ETDs.
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Session 9: Institutional and Country Initiatives
Friday 15th June, 13.30 - 15.00, Room: IV
Chair: John Hagen, West Virginia University, USA
Anup Kumar Das, Chaitali Dutta, B.K. Sen : ETD Policies, Strategies and Initiatives in India: A Critical Appraisal.
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Reinis Markvarts, Iveta Gudakovska, Gatis Karlsons : The University of Latvia ETD program: a case study of local practice.
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Paola Galimberti, Marialaura Vignocchi : Time for a change: the Italian CRUI-Open Access Working Group's action for a national e-theses provision service.
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Session 10: Next Generation ETDs
Saturday 16th June, 09.00 - 10.30, Room: X
Chair: Eva Müller, National Library of Sweden
John V. Richardson, Janine Liebert : Building Value Addedness into the Academic Dissertation: A Systems Analysis Approach.
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Heyse Wouter : Supporting change and diversity for theses in an institutional repository.
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Gary M. Worley : Dissertations Unbound: A Case Study for Revitalizing Access.
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Session 11: Institutional and Country Initiatives
Saturday 16th June, 09.00 - 10.30, Room: IX
Chair: Margareta Fathli, Stockholm University Library, Sweden
Fabrizia Bevilacqua : Polimnia project: issues and problems of realising a deposit of theses at the University of Parma.
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P. Rajendran, B. Ramesh Babu, S. Gopalakrishnan : Integrating E-Theses into Local Services: A Case Study of SRM University (Chennai) India.
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Vilius Kuciukas, Antanas Streimikis, Arunas Frankevicius, Aleksandras Targamadze : ETD discovery services in Lithuania.
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Session 12: Policy Issues
Saturday 16th June, 09.00 - 10.30, Room: IV
Chair: Neil Jacobs, JISC, UK
Niamh Brennan, Austin McLean : Plagiarism and ETDs: Confronting the Reality.
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Holly Mercer : Open Access and Responsible Research: Preparing Future Faculty at the University of Kansas.
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Wendy White : Opening access and closing risk: delivering the mandate for e-theses deposit.
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