Saturday, December 09, 2006

CFP: ETD 2007 (10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations)

CFP: ETD 2007 (10th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations)

Location: Uppsala, Sweden, June 13-16, 2007

Conferece/Call for Papers URL: http://epc.ub.uu.se/etd2007/

This meeting offers scope for an exchange of experience and consolidation of cooperation in the field of electronic theses and dissertations at local, national and international levels. Under the general theme "Added Value for E-theses", ETD 2007 is organised around two main themes: "Integrating ETDs with institutional processes and practices" and "Value added services".

The themes of the conference call for reflection on opportunities for joint efforts among various players in the production and information chain, both inside and outside our universities. The Conference Committee invites for the submission of papers and posters in all areas relevant to Electronic Theses and Dissertations, including but not limited to:

-Integrating e-theses into local services (student portals, educational portals and platforms, research databases, electronic prepublication processes)
-Integrating e-theses into local services (student portals, educational portals and platforms, research databases, electronic prepublication processes)
-Integrating e-theses into the research process (i.e., linking with research projects etc.)
-Integrating e-theses in national and international services (syndication, OAI-PMH, discovery services, syntactic and semantic interoperability)
-Local practices regarding e-theses
-Linking ETDs with related material such as data sets, statistics, multimedia
-Long-term preservation
-Business models and sustainability
-Enhancing graduate education through ETD programs
-Enhancing graduate knowledge about intellectual property (copyrights, patents, plagiarism policies)
-Improving scholarly communication globally through ETDs

Important dates:
November 11, 2006 First call for papers
January 15th, 2007 Registration open
February 15th, 2007 Final deadline for submission of abstracts of papers and posters
March 15th, 2007 Notification of acceptance
May, 15th, 2007 Deadline for final paper submission
June 13-16th, 2007 Conference time