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<div><span style="font-size: 13px;">Hello Leti,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13px;">We have no special arrangement with ProQuest to make our ETD bitstreams available in their databases. Only the metadata I guess. The bitstreams are available for anyone to crawl and harvest though.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 13px;">Regards,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 13px;">Wouter</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>IRTalk <<a href="mailto:irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk-bounces@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>> on behalf of Leti Kleyn <<a href="mailto:Leti.Kleyn@up.ac.za">Leti.Kleyn@up.ac.za</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 14:20<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>" <<a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[IRTalk] ETDs on ProQuest<br>
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<div>Dear IR community,</div>
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<div>can I have an indication if anyone allows ProQuest to harvest open access ETDs from their institutional repositories.
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<div>Kindest</div>
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