EBSCO and BiblioLabs Announce OA Service for Theses, Dissertations

"EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and BiblioLabs will launch OpenDissertations.org, an open access (OA) initiative that will facilitate the discovery of electronic theses and dissertations (ETD), in early 2018. Students, researchers, and libraries can submit ETD for free. EBSCO will include metadata for the submitted ETD in EBSCO Discovery Service, as well as exposing it on the OpenDissertations.org website to enhance the discoverability of this OA content both within academia and in open web searches. User traffic will be driven to partnering sites, such as academic institutional repositories (IR), which will host full-text versions of the theses and dissertations....At launch, the project will include the British Library’s EThOS Service, as well as ETD metadata from Cornell University, Florida State University, the University of Florida (UF), the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and the University of Kentucky...."