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 If ETD projects such as Virginia Tech and the NDLTD's represent a movement towards ETDs "from above," it's also important to point out that increasingly, there's corresponding activity "from below": individual graduate students who are attempting to secure institutional support for an electronic thesis or dissertation undertaken of their own initiative. Most often, such students seek to pursue research which utilizes an electronic environment to support scholarship that could not be readily duplicated in print (such is the case with my own dissertation on hypertext theory). I have been documenting such efforts (with a particular focus on humanities ETDs) since early 1996; detailed project descriptions for some two dozen ETDs are available at the following URL:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/ETD.htmlNote that the projects collected there represent a great deal of diversity in their methodology and subject matter (the majority are devoted to non-"cyber" topics), as well in their author's choice of platform, delivery media, and proprietary vs. open data standards. This plurality has occasionally drawn criticism from those who (rightly) are concerned with issues of preservation and access. But the site is not intended to endorse any particular piece of hardware or software as a standard -- rather, it's meant to serve as a reference and resource for those interested in tracking the emergence of a new mode of scholarly writing.
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