Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and Prospects

Introduction ETDs form an important component of global scholarship (Fox, 1997) and research output. Many universiBes around the world require, accept, or at least encourage students to submit their theses and dissertaBons electronically. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and DissertaBons (NDLTD, 2009b), which promotes ETD acBviBes worldwide, now has over 779,000 ETDs accessible through its Union Catalog, run by Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). Other NDLTD partners provide powerful tools for searching, browsing, and visualizaBon (Scirus/NDLTD, 2009; VTLS, 2009).

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