ETD at SILS
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) are digital representations of student Master's Theses (or Papers) and doctoral dissertations. SILS students are required to submit an electronic version as part of their degrees. Their papers are immediately available worldwide via multiple electronic search mechansims including the SILS Library, the ETD archive itself, Open Archives Initiative search engines (NeoRef), and web search engines (Google).
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History
The School of Information and Library Science at UNC has led the way in the research, development, and adoption of ETDs at SILS. Gary Marchionini and other faculty met with Ed Fox of Virginia Tech and the UNC Graduate School in 2001, laying the ground work. In 2003 Brad Hemminger initiated efforts on campus, leading to the appointment of a campus wide committee to investigate and implement ETDs for UNC. This work began in 2003, and expects to start ETDs in 2005, and go fully electronic in 2007. Dr. Hemminger's research group, including SILS graduates Mao Ni and Jackson Fo, developed the first ETD respository using DSpace at SILS. Spring semester 2004 masters papers were the first additions to the archive.