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Call for Papers: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Weisser (ENG))
Thu Jun 5 20:32:27 1997
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:59:36 -0500
From: "Christian Weisser (ENG)" <cweisser@chuma.cas.usf.edu>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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Call for Papers
The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Sourcebook
Innovative research universities are now requiring ETDs--electronic theses
and dissertations. Within the next decade, universities worldwide will
require ETDs. As this newest form of scholarship emerges, graduate
students, educators, and administrators need a reference book to help
demystify the theoretical and technical underpinnings of electronic theses
and dissertations.
We are seeking proposals for 15-25 page articles that address the issues
and possibilities surrounding this emerging form of research and
scholarship. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following
questions:
*How might electronic publication of theses and dissertations change views
on scholarship?
*With greater access to non-traditionally published scholarship, how
might/should current copyright laws change to protect intellectual
property?
*What strategic moves can universites make to efficiently institutionalize
ETDs?
*Should active links in ETDs to URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) outside
the text be permitted, or should ETDs contain internal links only?
*How might graphics, hypermedia, and other non-text components of
electronic publications change our conceptions of dissertations?
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS
September 1, 1997--Submit 1 page proposals. Include a 50 word byline
with your submission.
December 15, 1997--Submit essay in duplicate. Include disk with two
files, one in rtf (or text) and one in Word Perfect.
Editors: Christian R. Weisser (cweisser@chuma.cas.usf.edu) and Joseph M.
Moxley (moxley@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
University of South Florida
Department of English
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CPR 356
Tampa, Fl 33620
(813) 974-9522
