I wonder what, in general, is happening in the chemistry area? Are electronic theses in chemistry widely accepted? For those that are, are they "emasculated" chemically? By this I mean they appear in eg Acrobat form, with no easily extractable chemical components (coordinates, connection tables, spectra, etc). Are they indexed, and if so, what meta data is associated with them? Do e-dissertation projects provide good tools for authors, or are the authors expected to do it all?
ETD 2001, the Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, will be held at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, on March 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2001.
ETD 2001 is a forum for academic administration officials, information-technology professionals, and librarians interested in providing easy access to theses and dissertations by making them available online.
The conference will cover a broad range of topics: from the technology necessary to make it happen to organizational and policy issues that arise when a university institutes ETDs. A list of confirmed speakers and session topics is available at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/Confirmed.htm
A limited number of sessions are available for contributed papers and poster presentations. Please, go to http://library.caltech.edu/etd/CallforPapers.htm for details on the call for papers. The deadline for submitting contributed papers and/or posters is January 15th, 2001. Please send proposed title and abstract to mailto:jhagen2@wvu.edu.
For full details on conference schedule, program, and location, please go to the conference web site at http://library.caltech.edu/etd/
Online registration will open in early December.
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