Copley Connects | Fall 2021

Message From the Dean | 2 Reflections on Digital USD | 4 The Story of Now: Why Knowledge Matters | 6 The 10 Year Anniversary of Copley\u27s Participation in Summer Bridge | 7 USD McNair Scholars Summer Research Program Faculty Mentor | 7 COPLEY LIBRARY AND SDPL PRESENT: The Sum of Us, An Evening with Heather McGhee | 8 Managing a Retrospective Electronic Dissertation Project | 9 COPLEY READS: Book Recommendations from Library Staff | 10 Save the Date: April 25-26, 2022, for the Virtual Digital Initiatives Symposium | 12https://digital.sandiego.edu/copley_connects/1017/thumbnail.jp

Literature review of research into attitudes towards electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)

This document summarises existing research into the attitudes of graduate students and their supervisors towards electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Research was identified from Germany, India, Italy, South Africa, the UK and the US. The authors of two published papers from the UK were contacted via email and asked to expand upon their published work. In order to extend the picture of current attitudes of UK research students and supervisors to ETDs, repository managers from UCL Eprints and White Rose Research Online (Based at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York) who have relatively advanced collections of ETDs, were asked to provide a list of the concerns that were most often brought to their attention during their advocacy work

Design and Implementation of Electronic Dissertation Management System Based on ASP.NET MVC

随着信息技术在管理方面的广泛应用，信息管理系统在技术上的实施已经逐步成熟与完善。信息管理系统是一个不断发展与进步的新型课题，任何一个学校或企业都需要发展与完善，需要高效率地把内部资源与活动有机的组织结合起来，就必须建立与自身特点相适应的全方位的信息管理系统，电子论文管理系统就是其中之一。 众所周知，纸版论文的交付与管理有着许多的弊端，它的规范问题以及易丢失性都会对学生及导师造成极大的不便，更特别的是它的实时性和地域性带来的未知的问题。电子论文管理系统就是在此环境下应运而生，它已经广泛应用于目前的国内外各大高校。电子论文管理系统的出现无疑给传统的论文管理模式带来了一次彻底的革命，使之更具实效性...As information technology has been widely applied to management, the technology of information management system has gradually matured and improved. Information management system is a new issue with continuous development and progress. An electronic paper management system plays a key role of the full range of information management systems which are necessary for a school or a company to integrat...学位：工程硕士院系专业：软件学院_工程硕士(软件工程)学号：X200923036

A Systematic Approach to Graduate Writing Groups: Facilitator, First Meeting, and Feedback Structure

Scholarship on writing groups has long documented the benefits that grow from writers meeting regularly to share feedback, gain accountability, and encourage one another. However, some groups flounder and some flourish, and little research exists on the reasons for such failures or successes. This leaves few resources for writing group facilitators attempting to create bonds among group members, keep members on task, create accountability, counter absenteeism, and the like. The present article explains how the author, a graduate writing group facilitator struggling with these issues, drew from survey data taken from group participants and interviews with facilitators to create a systematic approach to writing group facilitation in order to improve group functioning. This new approach revealed three main factors upon which graduate groups’ success hinges: 1) the role of the group’s facilitator 2) the group’s first meeting, and 3) the group’s workshopping/feedback structure. All three factors are explored and recommendations are given for improving in each area.University Writing Cente

Electronic dissertations in the Netherlands

Several Dutch university libraries started full text electronic storing and publishing of scholarly information during the first half of the nineties; they aimed to build up collections of full text digital information and to develop digital user services. Doing so, they wanted to acquire expertise in the areas of producing, converting, indexing and providing electronic documents. The University of Groningen decided to concentrate in the first instance on dissertations (and other university publications), because these documents are quality controlled and free of copyright. At this university each year about 200 dissertations are submitted in all kind of disciplines. From January 1994 Ph D. students were allowed to present an electronic version of their dissertation to the University Library Groningen for interlibrary exchange instead of 50 printed copies. Supporting a multiformat platform, the Groningen University Library allowed authors to decide in what document format they want to present their theses. WORD, WORDPERFECT and LATEX proved to be the most common used word processors. In a leaflet authors were informed which requirements they had to fullfill. The most important requirement is that the document should be completely electronic. To teach scientists, students and researchers how to produce electronic publications, the Computing Centre of the University organised several courses. Besides, the Computing Centre and the University Library were prepared to give those who had problems the necessary instructions and help. At the beginning, each electronic dissertation was stored on a document server in POSTSCRIPT format, together with ASCII versions of the bibliographical data, the summary and the table of contents. Soon afterwards PDF and HTML became de facto standards. For that reason, some years later the title page and the table of contents of the dissertations of the Groningen University are converted to HTML and the fulltext in PDF

Seton Hall University Library ETD Submission Workflow

In 2013, Seton Hall University Libraries moved to an online electronic dissertation and theses (ETD) process using the digital commons platform. SHU does not have an office of Graduate Studies thus there were no uniform guidelines or governed process. Moving to an online submission system allowed the University Libraries to accept born-digital copies, make them easily accessible online and integrated with our catalog. The libraries assumed the lead role for establishing guidelines and procedures for dissertations and theses for the entire university. Customized metadata fields were established for the process including administrative hidden fields. Students are instructed to a three step process that includes: paying a submission fee to the library, online ETD submission to digital commons, and delivery to ProQuest. Each submission to digital commons is reviewed by a librarian in the catalog department, before it is sent to ProQuest. Once this process is complete, an Excel file maintained by the library is marked and shared with the registrar’s office. It is the library that clears graduate students for graduation. The ETD submission process has been very successful; allowing for automation and standardized workflows for both students and staff