Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations
From Digital Innovations @ Emory Libraries
As a first step towards creating an institutional repository, Emory began plans for its ETD repository in the Spring of 2006 when the library's Digital Programs and Systems division formed the ETD Advisory Group, comprised of faculty, graduate students, university administrators and librarians. A full-time project manager was hired in 2006.
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[edit] Program Summary: Emory's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Repository
The primary purpose of the ETD repository (https://etd.library.emory.edu) is to provide convenient access to one of the most important intellectual products of the university - masters theses and doctoral dissertations. (It will also recognize the contributions of undergraduate scholars by collecting undergraduate honors theses.) In the past, access to an Emory thesis or dissertation was quite limited. Beyond reading the one copy held in Emory's library, interested (non-Emory) researchers could only acquire copies of theses and dissertations through interlibrary loan or by purchasing a paper or electronic copy of the document from UMI/Proquest. Moreover, it often took a number of months after the author's graduation before the academic community could access the document. The ETD repository offers prompt web-based access to these documents, greatly increasing the visibility of our scholars and fulfilling our core mission: to contribute to academic scholarship. It is our hope that this program will also streamline the submission process and eliminate the production of unnecessary paper copies of documents.
[edit] Contributors
The program was overseen by the university's ETD advisory group: University Library Representatives: Martin Halbert, Erika Farr, Katherine Skinner, Lars Meyer, Ginger Cain and Paul O'Grady; Faculty Representatives: Simon Blakey, Department of Chemistry, Kathy Miner, Rollins School of Public Health, Paul Courtright, Department of Religion, Harry Rusche, Department of English, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Department of History, Walt Reed, Institute for Liberal Arts; Rick Rubinson, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS); Staff Representatives: Maureen Sweatman, Office for Undergraduate Education, Monica Taylor, Graduate Division of Biological/Biomedical Sciences, Queen Watson (GSAS); Student Representatives: Wesley Robertson, Department of Physics, Scott Gavorsky, Department of History. The contributions of the Emory Graduate School administration, including Dean Lisa Tedesco, Rosemary Hines, and Virginia Shadron were invaluable to the design of this program.
[edit] Software Development
The submission system used is the Fedora Digital Repository System combined with a custom web front-end for Fedora, developed at Emory University by Rebecca Sutton Koeser.
[edit] Project Staff
Project Manager: Paul O'Grady
Software Development Team:
For more information, contact Paul O'Grady
