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Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Meghan Banach
Open Access And Copyright For Theses And Dissertations, Meghan Banach
Meghan Banach Bergin
The event will give graduate students an overview of open access and the benefits of choosing open access for electronic theses and dissertations. An overview of copyright and fair use as it relates to theses and dissertations will also be presented.
The Benefits Of Managing And Publishing Etds "In House" Using An Open Access Repository, Meghan Banach
The Benefits Of Managing And Publishing Etds "In House" Using An Open Access Repository, Meghan Banach
Meghan Banach Bergin
Open access repositories have given universities an exciting new opportunity to manage and publish their own ETDs. At the same time, new challenges have emerged such as objections to open access and new more complicated workflows. Meghan Banach, Metadata Catalog Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has coordinated the library side of ETD management for the past 4 years. She oversees the management of about 500 theses and dissertations per year. She will use the UMass ETD program as a case study to describe two workflows for managing ETDS: one for doctoral dissertations which involves both the UMI Proquest …