Poster Session: Examining acces by country and language

EXAMINING ACCESSES BY COUNTRY AND LANGUAGE

Ana M B Pavani, Ana C E Mazzeto

PUC-Rio is a BDTD member institution and its collection has over 5K ETDs. The university offers graduate programs in Humanities, Social Sciences and Science & Technology. Though the ETD program started in March 2000, access logs to ETDs have been saved only since June 2004.

The authors decided to examine the logs to try to understand the importance of the ETD collection as a reference to speakers of the two languages. This analysis has been yielding interesting results concerning accesses from:

–* Spanish speaking countries – Latin American countries and Spain;

– * Portuguese speaking countries – Portugal and former Portuguese colonies.

This paper addresses a mapping of the accesses by country, language and region, always considering the country population and, when available, its educational level. The numbers are also compared (as percentages) to total international accesses.

ETD Veterans panel- Back to the future

A panel of veterans launched into some of the hurdles that the ETD movement has confronted in the last decade.

Tim Brace, the moderator and recipient of a 2010 NDLTD leadership award, started the discussion by reading the main program elements from the 2001 ETD conference and asking if anything of the overall interest areas and concerns have changed.

Thomas Dowling shared his geographic proximity with ACS and OCLC and the ability of librarians to change OCLC restrictive policies through banding together for advocacy. Gail McMillan reminded everyone that at that early conference a major publisher, when asked, revealed their acceptance, not opposition, to ETD repositories. Ed Fox emphasized overcoming fears through unity, seeking partnerships, and changing relationship with colleagues, and building a culture of confidence and strength.

The discussion moved to embargoes, and Terry Kahn from the UT Graduate School shared a recent experience with a log-term embargo request and the need to counsel the student about the power of open scholarship. Terry said emphatically that we are on a mission, and that the system of required pre-thesis professional articles is a distracting and incorrect trend that we can advocate against. John Hagen talked about the restrictions imposed by national security concerns that remain unresolved.

Electronic Poster: State of ETDs in Pakistan

State of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) in Pakistan: A case study of the Higher Commission of Pakistan (HEC) Depository

Maqsood Ahmad Shaheen, Muhammad Javed Iqbal

The study reviews the existing literature and projects on ETDs in Pakistan. The survey method aims to bring about the present state of ETDs in university libraries in Pakistan, assess the user as well as library staff expertise on these ETDs and the skills required by the librarians to cater user needs.

Poster: Opening the Corral Gate To Collaboration

Opening the Corral Gate To Collaboration, Open Access and Electronic Theses

Janice Cox

This poster presentation will describe the collaborations, electronic theses, institutional repository, and access experience of the Indiana University School of Dentistry Library. Indiana University School of Dentistry’s digitized ETD submissions began in 2009. The IUSDL has been committed to investigating transformative services that not only support the teaching, research, patient care and community outreach activities of the school’s faculty, staff, and students but introduce service flexibility and user empowerment. IUPUI ScholarWorks, the campus’s IR, provided an opportunity to transform an existing service where dissemination and access of graduate student research was corralled by its original design and operational procedures.

Poster Session: ETDs in the Lone Star State

The State of ETDs in the Lone Star State: A Survey of Thesis and Dissertation Granting Institutions in Texas Stephanie A Larrison, Ginger Dickens

Objective: To provide a point of reference on the status of ETDs at Texas institutions and to guide program planning for the newly formed Texas Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (TxETDA).

Methods: Surveyed library and graduate school staff at 52 thesis or dissertation granting institutions in Texas during November 2009 via an online survey.

Plenary Session: James Crawford, Engineering Director for Google Books

Google has big ideas. Books as a corpus of human knowledge. All books- buy anywhere, read anywhere, sell electronic books from kiosks in every public library. According to James, talented engineers get 20% of their time off to create things. I guess we can substitute the word thesis for book, though he did not say this.

USETDA survey to build US ETD collaboration

The USETDA would like your input. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/242275u and complete their brief questionnaire. USETDA wants to encourage the development of state-wide ETD associations, support ETD professionals in their work, and develop a clearinghouse of ETD information to better inform mulitiple audiences on ETD issues and initiatives.

Copyright and Fair Use Plenary

Georgia Harper, Gretchen McCord Hoffman, and Kevin Norris presented the Thursday morning plenary on intellectual property. The preentation files should be on the program website after the conference. There are also video recordings being made of plenary sessions.

Seven channels of change- Larry Johnson's opening keynote

His seven trends:
“Computing in Three Dimensions”
“Games Are Reality”
“Keyboards are for Older People”
“Users ARE the Content”
“Collective Intelligence is the New Knowledge”
“The People Are the Network”
"The network is everywhere"

During the question and answer, when asked about the future of Libraries, he reminded us that libraries preserve current knowledge for the students of the future.

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ETD 2010 Conference - Keynote Speakers

Larry Johnson, PhD
The New Media Consortium, Austin, Texas

Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of The New Media Consortium (NMC), an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, and research centers in the world, as well as some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies. Johnson is an acknowledged expert on emerging technology and its impacts on society and education, and the topics of creativity, innovation, and how to think about the future. With more than 25 years of experience in the higher education arena, he served in campus roles that included faculty dean, CIO, provost, and president before joining the NMC in 2001.

Seven Channels of Change: How Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Amphitheater 204

After nearly a decade of tracking the evolution of emerging technology as part of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, Larry Johnson, the Horizon Project’s founder and visionary leader, has uncovered seven clear patterns in the evolution of technology that can only be seen over time. From his research, it is clear that these seven powerful channels are at the heart of how learning, work, and play are evolving everywhere in the world and in every sector of education. While the technologies and practices highlighted in the eleven editions of the Horizon Report published over the past decade are being implemented in ways that reflect local constraints and challenges around the globe, the project has been remarkably prescient in its projections.

Virtually all of the technologies highlighted in past Horizon Reports have become commonplace and integrated into everyday activities. All of them continue to unfold, converge and morph, and as they do, they are moving along seven channels, in ways that have greatly influenced almost every form of human activity. What is obvious through the lens of time is that while the currents and eddies of emerging technology are complex, what the Horizon Report have been detailing are developments fueled by these seven profound channels of change.

Join Johnson, the Horizon Project’s founder and visionary leader, as he outlines these seven pathways of innovation and technological evolution that he believes are deeply impacting how we think about our world; the ways we teach, learn, work, and create; and especially how we communicate.

James Crawford, PhD
Engineering Director for the Google Books Project

Google Books has the modest goal of scanning the world’s books and making the data searchable online.Prior to joining Google, Dr. Crawford was Executive Vice president at Composite Software, an enterprise software startup in the bay area. During his four years at Composite, his teams delivered next generation data integration technology to some of the world’s largest financial institutions, manufacturers, and multiple government agencies.Before joining Composite Software, Dr. Crawford spent three years at NASA’s Ames Research Center as lead for autonomy and robotics. Among many other projects, one of his teams delivered the optimized activity planner used by both the Opportunity and Spirit Mars rovers.

Prior to joining NASA, Dr. Crawford was the optimization architect for the i2 Technologies supply chain planner, co-founded the Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) at the University of Oregon, and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (back when the creators of Unix were still in residence).Dr. Crawford has authored over 15 papers in referred journals and conferences, and holds five patents. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Artificial Intelligence and his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Rice University.

The Present & Future of Google Books
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Amphitheater 204

The Google Books project has the modest goal of scanning all of the world’s books, converting them to digital form, and making them searchable as easily as web pages. To date over twelve million books containing over four billion pages have been scanned and digitized. The challenges have been one part technical, including OCR for dozens of languages, and one part legal (copyright laws were inherited from a different age). As the corpus emerges, and the legal challenges are overcome, books are becoming more accessible than ever before and new opportunities are arising in areas ranging from social collaboration to linguistic analysis.

Getting ready for Austin, Texas

Warm days are ahead in Austin. Temperatures will average 90°F / 33°C in the daytime and 75°F / 23°C in the evenings. There is a 30% chance of scattered thunderstorms forecast for Thursday, otherwise it will be partly cloudy to mostly sunny all week.

Be sure to bring plenty of suncreen. Travel safely and see you in Austin!

Austin Weather Forecast, TX (78712)

ETD 2010 Conference - Registration is Open

Don't miss out on the opportunity to attend ETD 2010 - the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations to be held June 16 - 18, 2010 at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, USA. The Conference program is available online.

To register for the ETD 2010 Conference, visit

http://conferences.tdl.org/utlibraries/etd2010/schedConf/registration.

The ETD 2010 Conference will focus on electronic theses and dissertations, institutional repositories, open access and integrative e-learning processes in higher education. Discussion topics will focus on collaboration, innovation, and sustainability including open access, scholarly communications, intellectual property, digital preservation, digital library standards, platforms/demonstrations, new trends and a special emphasis on Latin American developments. This year we have an outstanding lineup of experts who will share their visions of the future of electronic scholarly publishing.

ETD 2010 Featured Speakers

- Dan Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Book Search, Google Book Search
- Laurence F. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, New Media Consortium
- Austin McLean, Director, Product Management, ProQuest
- Georgia Harper, Scholarly Communications Advisor, University of Texas Libraries
- Tim Brace, Assistant Director, Office of the Registrar, University of Texas at Austin
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Representative

Conference activities will also include presentations from prominent librarians, graduate school administrators, information technology specialists and technology solution providers from 4 continents. There will be 4 plenary sessions, 46 papers (breakout sessions) as well as 30 poster exhibitors and a Technology Fair with sponsored exhibits by commercial and non-profit organizations.

The conference will provide fantastic venues at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. Just a few miles from the airport, it is downtown Austin's only residentially-accredited IACC conference facility, proudly featuring uniquely designed conference spaces and comfortable guest rooms with excellent technical services.

What to do for fun in Austin
To quote the Austin visitor's guide, "It's hip and trendy, yet in a vintage sort of way. It's high-tech and laid-back. It's politically charged and culturally rich. It's eclectic by nature and creative by design. Most of all, it's a place where people like to have a good time.". We've included links to the visitor's center, as well as some restaurant links and music attractions. Most music venues do not accept reservations, but some, for special attractions, will pre-sell tickets. Your best bet is to take some time, look at some of the places we've listed online, and plan ahead.

Online Conference Registration is now open! We have secured a range of low cost accommodations available, including discount on-campus lodging.

Register for ETD 2010 today!

Still need convincing about the benefits of attending ETD 2010? Read the following and pass the information along to your Graduate School, Information Technology and University Library Deans and Directors.

In these very challenging financial times, what makes the NDLTD's ETD Conference series worthwhile? Consider the following:

About the NDLTD

Thanks to the support of NDLTD members, affiliates and sponsors world-wide, 2009 was the most successful year in NDLTD history. The ETD 2009 Conference at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania was the capstone event for the organization. This year's conference looks to build on this momentum. We hope that you are planning to join us in Austin for ETD 2010, to be held at the University of Texas in Austin, TX, USA.

Recently the NDLTD union catalog crossed a major milestone. Participating institutions now make over one million electronic theses and dissertations available for harvesting. NDLTD is helping many others in setting up their ETD repositories, ensuring continued growth of this important collection. To use and/or contribute to the union catalog, please visit http://www.ndltd.org/find and use any of the services available there.

The NDLTD also supports many other activities, such as ETD awards and travel grants, and ETD-ms, the emerging standard for ETD metadata. You can find out more at http://www.ndltd.org/, the NDLTD web site.

Your participation in NDLTD activities is vital for the continued health of the organization and indicates that you are aware of the importance of making theses and dissertations available electronically. You know how it improves the visibility of student research, how it helps them in their career, and how it improves all research by making previously hidden works easily accessible to a worldwide audience.

NDLTD relies on individuals like you. If your institution is not a member, or its membership has lapsed, please let your superiors know how a modest membership fee makes a world of difference. Membership fees directly support NDLTD activities to increase the visibility of graduate research. As an added benefit, attendees from member institutions enjoy a 10% discount on the registration fee for the ETD 2010 Conference. Join NDLTD today.

How Attending the ETD 2010 Conference Can Help

- Make an investment in your institution. Studies consistently show that organizations which invest in open access programs such as ETD implementation and institutional repository collection development receive greater recognition on a global scale for their faculty and student's research efforts. With today's competition, how long can your institution afford to go unnoticed? Attendance at the ETD 2010 conference can be a low cost / high impact way to rapidly make a difference at your institution.

- Make an investment in your staff. Studies consistently show that organizations that invest in their people have higher staff morale levels and job satisfaction. Is your staff up-to-date on latest trends and standards? In times when morale and satisfaction can be battered by the lack of raises, salary reductions and increasing work loads, attendance at an ETD Conference can be a low cost way to improve the situation.

- Networking and development ensures you are deriving the maximum value from the investment you have made, and continue to make, in your technology and scholarly communications endeavors and solutions. It's not news that in today's environment, you need to make every dollar stretch further than before. One way to do that is to make sure your people know how to derive the greatest efficiency from your systems and services for both your staff and users. Engaging your staff in ETD symposia helps achieve that goal.

- New dimensions in electronic scholarly communications, related services and products require new understanding. The NDLTD is well known for its continued delivery of innovative ideas and development of standards for the global community since 1996. ETD Symposia provide a comprehensive source that helps your staff remain informed on latest trends, lessons learned and best practices.

- Networking allows for the sharing of ideas and solutions. One of the real values of attending the annual ETD conferences is having the opportunity to meet face-to-face and talk with colleagues, peers and experts about how they are dealing with many of the same challenges you are facing. Often new approaches and solutions to existing issues are found, discussed and explored in these forums.

Attending the ETD 2010 Conference is an investment, not an expense, in the future of your University's scholarly communications. At the very time when Graduate Schools, University Libraries and Information Technology groups face increased demands for their services, these conferences help position your organization to meet those demands. Regardless of whether your institution is a rookie or a veteran to the process, you will benefit by attending. Join us.

Register today to attend. It is the best investment decision you will ever make in your institution.
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, we hope to see you in Austin in June at ETD 2010!

Fred Heath, Chair, ETD 2010 Symposium

John Hagen, NDLTD Conference Committee

ETD 2010 Conference Organizers
E-mail: etd2010@austin.utexas.edu
Web: http://conferences.tdl.org/utlibraries/etd2010

The ETD 2010 Conference is organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, hosted by the University of Texas at Austin Libraries.

ETD 2010 Conference Keynote Speakers

Dr. Larry JohnsonThe New Media Consortium, Austin, Texas

Laurence F. Johnson, Ph.D. is Chief Executive Officer of The New Media Consortium (NMC), an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. Its hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, and research centers in the world, as well as some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies. Johnson is an acknowledged expert on emerging technology and its impacts on society and education, and the topics of creativity, innovation, and how to think about the future. With more than 25 years of experience in the higher education arena, he served in campus roles that included faculty dean, CIO, provost, and president before joining the NMC in 2001.

Seven Channels of Change: How Technology is Unfolding, Everywhere We Look
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Amphitheater 204

After nearly a decade of tracking the evolution of emerging technology as part of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, Larry Johnson, the Horizon Project’s founder and visionary leader, has uncovered seven clear patterns in the evolution of technology that can only be seen over time. From his research, it is clear that these seven powerful channels are at the heart of how learning, work, and play are evolving everywhere in the world and in every sector of education. While the technologies and practices highlighted in the eleven editions of the Horizon Report published over the past decade are being implemented in ways that reflect local constraints and challenges around the globe, the project has been remarkably prescient in its projections. Virtually all of the technologies highlighted in past Horizon Reports have become commonplace and integrated into everyday activities. All of them continue to unfold, converge and morph, and as they do, they are moving along seven channels, in ways that have greatly influenced almost every form of human activity. What is obvious through the lens of time is that while the currents and eddies of emerging technology are complex, what the Horizon Report have been detailing are developments fueled by these seven profound channels of change. Join Johnson, the Horizon Project’s founder and visionary leader, as he outlines these seven pathways of innovation and technological evolution that he believes are deeply impacting how we think about our world; the ways we teach, learn, work, and create; and especially how we communicate.

James Crawford, PhD
Engineering Director for the Google Books Project

Google Books has the modest goal of scanning the world’s books and making the data searchable online.

Prior to joining Google, Dr. Crawford was Executive Vice president at Composite Software, an enterprise software startup in the bay area. During his four years at Composite, his teams delivered next generation data integration technology to some of the world’s largest financial institutions, manufacturers, and multiple government agencies.

Before joining Composite Software, Dr. Crawford spent three years at NASA’s Ames Research Center as lead for autonomy and robotics. Among many other projects, one of his teams delivered the optimized activity planner used by both the Opportunity and Spirit Mars rovers. Prior to joining NASA, Dr. Crawford was the optimization architect for the i2 Technologies supply chain planner, co-founded the Computational Intelligence Research Laboratory (CIRL) at the University of Oregon, and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (back when the creators of Unix were still in residence).

Dr. Crawford has authored over 15 papers in referred journals and conferences, and holds five patents. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in Artificial Intelligence and his B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Rice University.

The Present & Future of Google Books
Thursday, June 17, 2010 - 1:30 pm
Amphitheater 204

The Google Books project has the modest goal of scanning all of the world’s books, converting them to digital form, and making them searchable as easily as web pages. To date over twelve million books containing over four billion pages have been scanned and digitized. The challenges have been one part technical, including OCR for dozens of languages, and one part legal (copyright laws were inherited from a different age). As the corpus emerges, and the legal challenges are overcome, books are becoming more accessible than ever before and new opportunities are arising in areas ranging from social collaboration to linguistic analysis.

NDLTD ETD Awards 2010 Winners Announced

The NDLTD is pleased to announce this year's award winners. The awards recognize students who have written exemplary electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) as well as leaders who have helped to promote ETD programs. Winners have demonstrated new dimensions of scholarship being explored by individuals who have made significant contributions to the worldwide ETD movement.

The awards will be presented at the ETD 2010 Symposium, to be held this year at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas June 16 - 18, 2010.

And the winners are...

Innovative ETD Award

• Andrew Barnes / Master of Science in Journalism / West Virginia University, U.S.A.
• Guylaine Vaillancourt / Ph.D. Leadership and Change / Antioch University, U.S.A.
• Andre Zimmermann / Ph.D. Geography / University of British Columbia, Canada

Innovative Learning through ETDs Award

• Leslie Jarmon / Ph.D. Communication Studies / University of Texas, U.S.A.
• Jacques Orton / Master’s in Architecture / University of Pretoria, South Africa

ETD Leadership Award

• Tim Brace / University of Texas, U.S.A.
• Monica Hammes / University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Nancy Stuart / University of Victoria, Canada

The full NDLTD press release is available online.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Extended Deadline for proposals: Monday, March 15th

The program committee for ETD 2010 has extended the deadline for submitting proposals for posters, papers, and presentations through Monday, March 15^th. Please see the call for papers appended below or consult the Conference web site at https://conferences.tdl.org/utlibraries/etd2010. This year's conference will be hosted in Austin, Texas by the University of Texas Libraries and the Texas Digital Library. We will continue to add information to the web site as the conference takes shape.

We look forward to hosting this international event and hope to see many of you in Austin this June!

Most sincerely,

Doug Barnett
Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice Provost
University of Texas Libraries
Phone: 512-495-4388 | Fax: 512-495-4347
dougbarnett@austin.utexas.edu | www.lib.utexas.edu

Travel Scholarships – ETD 2010

In keeping with the spirit of open access and inclusiveness, the NDLTD offers travel scholarships to delegates in need of financial assistance to attend the ETD 2010 symposium. Travel scholarships are awarded based on need and reviewed according to NDLTD Conference Handbook guidelines. Scholarships may cover some or all transportation, registration and lodging costs.



Travel scholarship recipients are typically individuals from developing nations and/or graduate student awards program winners. This year's goal is to fund participation for 8 to 12 conference delegates. A required post-conference survey will be collected to assess the outcomes of delegate attendance.

To apply for a travel scholarship for ETD 2010, please complete the Financial Assistance Form and email to etd2010@austin.utexas.edu by March 15, 2010.

Applicants will be notified of scholarship decisions by March 22, 2010.


Doug Barnett
Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice Provost
University of Texas Libraries
Phone: 512-495-4388 | Fax: 512-495-4347
dougbarnett@austin.utexas.edu | www.lib.utexas.edu

photo source: source: Jonathan Talbot, World Resources Institute, 2007

ETD 2010 Conference Call for Papers

The ETD 2010 Conference Call for Papers has been posted online. Send your ideas for papers, posters and presentations.

ETD 2010 will explore the issues of collaboration, innovation, and sustainability in promoting ETDs, Institutional repositories and Open Access in the realm of scholarly communications, and includes a special focus on ETD developments in Latin America.

The deadline for abstract submission is March 5th.

ETD 2010 Web Site

Information about the ETD 2010 Conference is now available at https://conferences.tdl.org/utlibraries/etd2010

Dreaming of Austin in June...