About Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Articles, Reports, and Other Items of Note
UMI's Guidelines for "Submitting Dissertations and Masters' Theses in Electronic Format."

The Univeristy of Waterloo's ETD Survey Results.

Annotated ETD Bibliography from the University of South Florida's ETD Task Force.

"Electronic Publishing and Doctoral Dissertations in the Humanities", by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Virginia). A paper I delivered at the 1996 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, in Washington DC; I presented a revised and expanded version of this paper at the Joint Annual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Kingston, Ontario, June 6, 1997.

"CD-ROM Dissertations." Katherine S. Mangan. Chronicle of Higher Education, March 8, 1996. A 15.

" Requiring Theses in Digital Form: the First Year at Virginia Tech." Jeffrey R. Young. Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, 1998. A 29.

"Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Merging Perspectives", by Gail McMillan (Virginia Tech), Cataloging and Classification Quarterly (forthcoming).

"National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Unlock University Resources", by Edward A. Fox et al., D-Lib Magazine (September 1996).

"An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library," by Janet Erickson, TEI 10 confernece (November 1997). Note: In a reply posted to the ETEXTCTR-L list, I objected to Erickson's depiction of my own work and views -- this reply is available here.

" Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Digitizing Scholarship for its Own Sake," by Christian R. Weisser and Janice R. Walker. Journal of Electronic Publishing (December 1997).

Deena Larsen, author of the hypertext fiction Marble Springs, explains how she got her electronic Master's thesis accepted back in 1992.

Loss Pequeño Glazier's on-line defense. (Congratulations Loss!)

Online Discussions

Colloquy on ETDs from the Chronicle of Higher Education (February 1998).

A brief exchange on the American Association of University Presses list (October 1997)

ETEXTCTR-L's discussion of ETDs (August 1997)

Humanist's Discussion of ETDs

ETD-related Listservs from Virginia Tech