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Dear Colleagues:
The program committee for ETD 2010 has
extended the deadline for submitting proposals for posters, papers, and
presentations through Monday, March 15th. 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
We look forward to hosting this international event and hope to see
many of you in
Most sincerely,
Chief of Staff, Office of the Vice Provost
Phone:
dougbarnett@austin.utexas.edu
| www.lib.utexas.edu
ETD
2010: Collaboration, Innovation, Sustainability
Last Call
for Papers, Posters, Presentations & Tutorials
Deadline for Abstract
Submission:
Themes: Collaboration, Innovation, Sustainability,
ETD 2010
Call for Papers, Posters, Presentations and Tutorials
On behalf of The Networked Digital Library of Theses
and Dissertations (NDLTD), and the University of Texas Libraries, we would like to invite you to submit
a paper, poster or presentation for "ETD 2010: Collaboration, Innovation,
Sustainability" - the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Theses
and Dissertations to be held June 16 - 18, 2010 at the University of Texas in
Austin, Texas, U.S.A. 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.
The NDLTD initiative consists of hundreds of
contributing member universities, libraries, information organizations,
consortia and individuals. Membership details are available on the NDLTD
website and dues-paying members are offered a discount on the conference
registration fee. The NDLTD's activities are focused on those who produce,
manage, store and use electronic theses and dissertations in order to support
the authoring, indexing, archiving, dissemination and retrieval of ETDs
worldwide. Conference attendees typically include librarians, graduate school
administrators, information technology professionals and graduate faculty,
staff and students.
"ETD 2010: Collaboration, Innovation, and
Sustainability" is organized by the NDLTD, The University of Libraries,
and the Texas Digital Library, with generous sponsorship provided by non-profit
interest groups and corporations that produce hardware, software, and knowledge
management solutions for digital archives and repositories.
The purpose of "ETD 2010: Collaboration,
Innovation, and Sustainability" will not only be to present research
outcomes and demonstrate new developments and initiatives in the field of
electronic theses and dissertations, but also to encourage even more
universities around the world to become a part of the NDLTD and to promote
free, open and long-term access to online scholarship. For institutions and
individuals that are at the early stages of investigating how to operate and
promote an ETD project or program, the conference will also offer a range of
learning and networking opportunities within an international collegial
atmosphere of a premier university for graduate professional education.
Collaboration,
Innovation, Sustainability,
You are invited to submit proposals that address any
of the following themes:
COLLABORATIONS
Projects in ETD and IR Collections. Topics may include
the following areas:
Consortium Projects in Open Access
Institutional Repositories and University Communities
Lessons Learned from recent campus deployments of
ETDs: Case Studies
Lessons Learned from established ETD programs:
Case Studies
National and International collaborations
Use of Social Media for Self-Promotion
INNOVATION
ETDs, IRs. Topics may include the following
areas:
Preservation strategies/methods/workflows for ETDs
Supplementary and supporting content
Deploying new/emerging technologies in support of ETDs
E-Science and the next generation of ETDs
Standards
Special Projects
Tutorials for ETD submission/processing
Cloud Computing and other Novel Approaches to
Discovery
Repository Services
Commercial and Open Source Demonstrations
SUSTAINABILITY
ETD / IR System Providers and Users. Topics may
include the following areas:
Managing ETDs for the
long term: Case Studies
Experiences with Systems:
Case Studies
Issues and Solutions
Submission Workflows
Migration Workflows
ETD 2010 will feature a special focus on creating
connections with Latin American institutions and ETD participants.
Attendance and participation by individuals representing Latin American
institutions is especially encouraged, and participants are invited to submit
proposals on any aspect of ETDs and their practice or potential in
Abstract Proposal
Requirements
If you are interested in giving a paper or
presentation, running a tutorial within a workshop, or contributing a poster,
please read the following criteria:
Submit a 200-300 word, structured abstract online via
the Proposal Submission link on the ETD2010 web site http://conferences.tdl.org/utlibraries/etd2010.
When you select the Proposal Submission link you will
be taken to a sign in page. If you are affiliated with a Texas Digital
Library member institution, use your institutional ID and password to log in.
If your school is not listed, create your own account, and submit both
abstracts and final paper submissions through this portal. Structured abstracts
should be 200 - 300 words in length in a standard word processing format using
a research abstract style that includes:
Format:
paper, poster or tutorial
Title:
of paper, poster, tutorial
Authors:
including institutional or corporate identity
Length
of presentation: 20 minutes or (for multiple presenters only)
1 hour
Objective:
the purpose of the project or development activity being described
Methods:
the way in which the project or development activity was undertaken
Results:
the key results of the project or development activity (successes and / or
lessons learned)
Conclusions:
future plans, recommendations, etc.
Papers, presentations, tutorials and
posters will be selected on the basis of the following criteria:
Relevance to the conference themes
Significance of the content
The extent to which the project/development activity
is up to date/novel
The extent to which the project/development activity
could be transferable to other situations
Authors will be able to use the portal
to view abstract approval status and to upload revised versions of the
abstract. Completed, final versions of abstracts for papers are due by Friday,
Each of the parallel sessions of the conference will
contain a number of one-hour slots. In order to allow as broad a range of
presentations as possible, individual speakers should aim to talk for 15-20
minutes (including questions). Multifaceted presentations involving a number of
speakers may be submitted in the form of a one-hour session. Abstracts should
be submitted via the ETD2010 paper repository.
For further information about the submission
procedure, please send email to: etd2010@austin.utexas.edu.
Submission Information for Papers
The template for papers may be downloaded from the ETD 2010 web
site:
Papers
should be submitted by
PowerPoint
Presentations should be submitted by
Posters: Specifications for acceptable poster
format and size are forthcoming. Please check here again for updates.
For additional information about the submission procedure, please send
email to: etd2010@austin.utexas.edu.
Executive Director and Professor
Phone : + 91
Fax
: + 91
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