Exploring Global Connections

The USETDA and the NDLTD are co-hosting ETD 2025, the 28^th international symposium on electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and USETDA 2025, the 15^th national US conference on ETDs, to be held as a joint virtual event via Zoom September 25-26, 2025. This conference is co-organized by the USETDA (United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association) and the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations).

ETD 2025 will provide excellent educational opportunities for graduate school, disability and student services, offices of diversity, equity and inclusion, library, information technology, academic and industry professionals 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 that supports ETD productivity improvement and ETD professionals. This includes the advancement in ETD operations, the encouragement of the formation of regional ETD associations and networking communities, as well as providing useful and innovative resources, standards, and technology for the development and support of ETD programs. Proposals are welcome from graduate school, disability and student services, offices of diversity, equity and inclusion, library, information technology and industry professionals as well as graduate students, and faculty.

The conference theme, “Exploring Global Connections”, will delve into technology and academic processes as they impact various aspects of the creation and dissemination of scholarly work. We will examine the present use and availability of ETDs and related initiatives. We will also explore new and emerging ETD practices, needs, and influences that impact administrative, graduate school, and library professionals.

The ETD 2025 Symposium will be held as joint virtual conference online via Zoom. Through our call for proposals, we will seek plenary panel presentations, breakout sessions, flash talks, user group meetings, poster presentations and workshops in which participants can join live online interactive discussions. We will welcome your experiences as well as how to provide new capacities to re-envision the future, best practices and policies. All ETD 2025 conference papers, posters and presentations will be published on the NDLTD Document Archive. Selected papers will be included in a Special Issues of the Journal of Electronic Theses and Dissertations “J-ETD“. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work at the conference.

Important Dates

Call for proposals
- Announcement: December 20, 2024
- Submission deadline: March 14, 2025
Presenter notifications: May 2, 2025
Registration: May 16 – September 22, 2025
Conference Dates: September 25-26, 2025