Giant Leaps ETD Symposium

The Purdue Graduate School and
Purdue Libraries and School of Information Sciences
invite you to participate in:

Students who are candidates for degrees that require a thesis typically have the expectation of producing and depositing a written document. The credentialing of the candidate as well as the format, content, structure, and review of the document are strongly influenced — and often constrained — by the rules and the culture of the faculty, institution, and discipline who govern the process.

As universities and colleges have moved from print to digital, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) present the opportunity to think beyond the limitations of traditional formats and processes in order to enable students to express their scholarship with greater creativity and impact.

This one-day symposium explores the challenges and opportunities of ETDs by bringing together faculty and staff who are directly engaged in supervising theses and dissertations and managing the processes and infrastructure for producing them.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday, May 23, 2019
Location: Purdue University, Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC)
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m
Cost: FREE – Request an Invitation

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TxETDA Free Webinar: Beyond the PDF

The Texas ETD Association is excited to announce the continuation of the TxETDA Webinar Series 2019!

Heidi Arbisi-Kelm, the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate College at the University of Iowa, will be presenting Beyond the PDF: Evolving ETD Practices and Policies to Support the Next Generation of Student Work on Monday, March 25, 2019 at 1:00 PM Central.

Session description:

The University of Iowa Graduate College has fielded requests from across campus to collect new—and innovative—forms of scholarship, such as podcasts, data visualizations, and musical recordings.  This webinar will feature three case studies which highlight changes and challenges to current models of ETD administration as well as explore promising practices for collecting the next generation of student scholarship.  This webinar is for those who work with ETDs, faculty, administrators, and those working in the digital humanities or digital scholarship fields.

Free registration at http://bit.ly/txetda-beyondpdf, or at our website http://txetda.org.  Log-in instructions will be emailed by March 24th.

All interested are welcome to attend, please feel free to share with others. We’re excited to learn with you this year!

The Texas ETD Association is excited to announce the continuation of the TxETDA Webinar Series 2019!

Heidi Arbisi-Kelm, the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate College at the University of Iowa, will be presenting Beyond the PDF: Evolving ETD Practices and Policies to Support the Next Generation of Student Work on Monday, March 25, 2019 at 1:00 PM Central.

Session description:

The University of Iowa Graduate College has fielded requests from across campus to collect new—and innovative—forms of scholarship, such as podcasts, data visualizations, and musical recordings.  This webinar will feature three case studies which highlight changes and challenges to current models of ETD administration as well as explore promising practices for collecting the next generation of student scholarship.  This webinar is for those who work with ETDs, faculty, administrators, and those working in the digital humanities or digital scholarship fields.

Free registration at http://bit.ly/txetda-beyondpdf, or at our website http://txetda.org.  Log-in instructions will be emailed by March 24th.

All interested are welcome to attend, please feel free to share with others. We’re excited to learn with you this year!

Call for Proposals

Proposals for papers, presentations, panel sessions and posters are invited for USETDA 2019, the 9th annual conference of the US Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association. USETDA 2019 will be held September 25 – 27 at the Hyatt Place/Hyatt House Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, hosted by BiblioLabs, The University of South Carolina and the USETDA.

USETDA 2019 will provide excellent educational opportunities for professionals from graduate schools, libraries, academic computing and others who work with electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), institutional repositories, graduate students and scholarly communications. Our goal is to offer relevant, practice-oriented content to support ETD productivity improvement, ETD professionals, advance ETD operations and encourage the formation of regional ETD associations and networking communities as well as to provide useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for the development and support of ETD programs. Proposals are welcome from library, graduate school and information technology professionals, graduate students and faculty as well as library and information systems / services representatives.

The conference theme “Bridging the Divide – Scholarly Communications for All” will focus on the impact and implications of connecting scholars and research from across the country and around the world. We will examine the present use and availability of ETDs and related initiatives while also exploring new and emerging ETD practices, needs, and influences impacting administrative, graduate school and library professionals.

Deadline: Proposals should be submitted on or before March 15, 2019 to be considered.

For complete information and to submit your proposal visit the Call for Proposals Webpage.

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