FCLA can support your institution's Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) program in several ways.

Traditional method

Your graduate school or library provides software allowing students to upload and describe their ETDs (such as Virginia Tech's open source ETD-DB) and sends FCLA a copy of the accepted final ETD along with descriptive metadata in METS format. FCLA will host the URL online, provide a PURL for it, create a catalog record in your own Aleph OPAC, submit the ETD to the Florida Digital Archive, and manage access controls. Optionally, we can handle sending the ETD or an abstract to UMI.

For more information see:

• FCLA Support Services for ETDs
• Specification for METS XML to Accompany ETDs
• ETD METS Example 1 (simple)
• Special Handling for Video and Audio
• ETD METS Example 2 (with video)

Institutional Repository method

This works best for dissertations and theses that are retrospectively digitized. FCLA will host an Institutional Repository for your library using the DigiTool Deposit Module or the EPrints open source software. Staff can then use simple forms to upload the ETD and descriptive metadata into DigiTool or EPrints. With custom workflows it may be possible to submit the ETDs automatically to the Digital Archive, and to get the records into your Mango catalog. See our Institutional Repositories page for more information.