Kicking the Big Bucket: Establishing and Managing ETD Uploads in Your IR

Thad Cochran Center 218

Making your theses and dissertations available online in your institutional repository seems easy. Take the existing data, convert it, upload it, and you’re done. What could go wrong? Quite a bit! From rights considerations to understanding authors expectations and information from the graduate school. From understanding data formats for conversion to understanding display and access options in our IR. We will discuss the many lessons learned in making our university’s ETDs available in our IR.