20 years of ETDs and NDLTD, Briefly - ndltd
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-08-10
Summary:
"The NDLTD is based on a set of important ideas:
- Graduate students will continue as they receive Masters and Doctoral degrees to prepare theses and dissertations, which are important documents in their research careers.
- During their graduate education, they should learn important lifelong skills such as to communicate effectively through documents, and they can benefit by employing the latest technologies and methods for electronic communications.
- Colleges and universities seek recognition for and control over their intellectual property and clearly benefit from sharing the fruits of graduate research as openly and widely as possible. This can easily be done through digital libraries, e.g., institutional repositories, which also save space and time and expense relative to other approaches to managing theses and dissertations.
- Methods for sharing and collecting metadata about ETDs allow cost-effective regional, national, and international gathering of the global fruits of graduate research into a Union Catalog and Global Search Service, which can be led by the NDLTD.
- Students, faculty, librarians, graduate schools/registrars, and regional/national consortia are among the many interested stakeholders who all benefit from this global collaboration. More broadly, the ETD initiative can aid learners, teachers, scholars, researchers, and the many others interested in this rich genre.
- Into the future, ETDs can continue to lead the way in unfolding new methods of electronic publishing, sharing datasets, reproducible scholarship, use of multimedia/hypermedia technologies, curation, preservation, and digital library services. This is a low cost and highly effective ongoing method for advancing scholarly communication."