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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Gail McMillan <gailmac@vt.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 17:55<br>
<b>To: </b>"irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" <irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za><br>
<b>Subject: </b>2021 International Survey of ETDs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are requesting your participation in an international survey of Electronic Theses and Dissertations--ETDs. While ETDs have been part of academia for over 20 years, this is only
the third survey that attempts to collect data on the general practices of academic institutions around the world regarding ETDs. For the purpose of this survey, an ETD is a born-digital document that represents the research/writing of a student completed
at the culmination of a degree program, e.g., masters or undergraduate honors thesis, doctoral dissertations, scholarly project, etc.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Please take about 15 minutes to complete this anonymous survey by pasting the URL below into your Internet browser. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Information from the 2021 International Survey of ETDs will be summarized and shared broadly through publications, presentations and
</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">in easily accessible public repositories. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Thank you very much for participating in this important effort.<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Gail McMillan<br>
Director, Scholarly Communication<br>
Professor, Virginia Tech Libraries<br>
Board of Directors, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)<br>
</span><a href="mailto:gailmac@vt.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">gailmac@vt.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span><u><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:blue">540-231-9252</span></u><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Teresa Green</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Director of Graduate Academic and Student Affairs</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">College of Graduate Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The University of Toledo</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Board of Directors, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Dr. Shantashree Sengupta</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Librarian (Associate Professor Grade)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Progressive Education Society’s Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce (Autonomous),</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Shivajinagar, Pune-411005. Maharashtra. India</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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