ETD Survey: Baseline Data

Gail McMillan: Virginia TechMartin Halbert, Shannon Stark: University of North Texas

CNI, Dec. 10, 2013

Demographicsn = 161

West17%

South22%

North18%

Location of Participat-ing Institutions

Midwest17%

International

27%

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Institutions with ETD Programs

Yes No No, but

Collection Management

13%

66%

8%

13%

How do institutions manage their ETDs?

OtherCampus RepositoryExternal State Rep.External Vendor

5%

90%

4%1%

Who oversees the campus repository or ETD data-

base?

OtherLibraryCampus ITOffice of Research

Software Most Used by Institutions

12%

8%

43%

4%2%

4%1%

12%

12%

BePress:Digital Commons CONTENTdm DSPace

ETD-db Eprints Ex Libris: DigiTool

VTLS:Vital Locally Developed Other

Do you report ETD usage statistics on your web site?

No

Looking into it

Yes

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

I'nat'l US

Are your institution’s ETDs publically available?

All are OA

Some are OA

None are OA

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

I'nat'l US

Does your institution temporarily limit ETDs to university-only access?

No

Yes

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

I'nat'l US

Why does your institution limit ETDs to university-only access?

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Does your institution have embargoed ETDs?

None embargoed

Some embargoed

All embargoed

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

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Does your institution have a “preservation plan” for its

ETDs?

General Comments• “Institutional lethargy/fear/lack of

understanding how technically easy this is”

• “Challenges are both technical and administrative”

• “OA is an ongoing area of real confusion and lack of consensus on this campus”

• “We are beginning to question the practice of automatically sending full text to ProQuest.”