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ETD-db: Access and Manage Your ETD Workflow

Explore ETD-db, a digital library system that allows Virginia Tech students, faculty, researchers, and library personnel to easily manage their electronic theses and dissertations workflow. Upload, update, approve, catalog, and search for ETDs using a standard web browser.

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ETD-db: Access and Manage Your ETD Workflow

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  1. ETD-dbProviding Access and Managing Your ETD Workflow Gail McMillan Digital Library and Archives http://scholar.lib.vt.edu Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

  2. Students Faculty Graduate School personnel Library personnel Researchers Using any computer Internet connection Web browser Enter and update info Addressing Our Constituencies’ Needshttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses

  3. Virginia Tech’s ETD-db System • Hardware • Dual-processor Sun Enterprise 250 with 384Mb of RAM • 18Gb drive for theses and dissertations • Software • Solaris • Apache • MySQL (Oracle, Postgres) • Perl • Customize it with local Perl programmer

  4. Author ETD-db Interface Using a standard web browser • Password authentication • Existing university user accounts • Enter title page info into form • Upload files • Make changes until approved

  5. Graduate School ETD-db Interface • See submitted/waiting ETDs • Make changes • Email authors and advisors • Add another email address • Clearly indicates • Waiting for author input • Author has responded • Approve and add to live collection • Appropriate level of access based on author’s submission form • Make changes

  6. Cataloger ETD-db Interface Using a standard web browser • List of ETDs waiting • Already available to public • No delay to user access • Sees title page info • Catalogs ETD • Flagged as finished cataloging

  7. System Maintainer ETD-db Interface • Update ETDs already approved • Change level of access • Searchable by title page info

  8. End-user ETD-db Interface Using a standard web browser • Searchable by title page info http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/ETD-search/search • Browse • Author’s last name • Author’s department

  9. ETD-dbhttp://lumiere.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db • Download copy as used at VT http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/developer/download/ • Documentation current http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/developer/ • Customize it with local Perl programmer http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/developer/install.html

  10. ETD-dbProviding Access and Managing Your ETD Workflow Gail McMillan Digital Library and Archives http://scholar.lib.vt.edu Virginia Tech gailmac@vt.edu

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