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<P>The Program Committee of the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, ETD 2013, invites you to submit your proposals for papers and posters.</P>
<P>Under the theme “Asian Values, Western Thought, World Treasure”, the 16th ETD symposium will explore relations between ETDs and Open Access, with many examples and speakers from Asia and the West. We invite you to submit proposals that address the following or related sub-themes:</P>
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<LI>Open Access; using ETDs to forge an institutional culture of open access</LI>
<LI>Intellectual property, e.g. issues to consider with respect to IP and copyright, other potential legal options such as Creative Commons, how your institution deals with copyright and ETDs</LI>
<LI>Institutional repositories and ETDs, e.g., what role ETDs play in repositories, can institutional repositories influence the development of ETDs; your institutional experience implementing an institutional repository for ETDs</LI>
<LI>Integrating ETDs into the total research picture; their role in e-research and e-science</LI>
<LI>Integrating ETDs in national and international services (syndication, OAI-PMH, discovery services, syntactic and semantic interoperability)</LI>
<LI>Integrating ETDs into local services (student portals, educational portals and platforms, institutional repositories, current research information systems (CRIS), etc.</LI>
<LI>Technical issues related to ETD implementation</LI>
<LI>Tutorials for beginners</LI></UL>
<P> The deadline is April 15, 2013. For complete details visit the ETD 2013 <SPAN class=link-external><A href="http://lib.hku.hk/etd2013/call_for_papers.html"><STRONG>Call for Papers Web Page</STRONG></A></SPAN>.</P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT color=#00006f><STRONG><EM>Elsabe Olivier</EM></STRONG></FONT> </FONT></DIV>
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