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1 Contours of Supplementary and Supporting Content ETDs in Transformation ETD 2008 Aberdeen, Scotland

2 ProQuest UMI: Publishing Mission Preserve Cultural Heritage Preserve & Disseminate Scholarly Record Eugene Power establishes University Microfilm (UMI) in 1938

3 UMI: Dissertations & Technology

4 1938 University Microfilms founded 1951 ARL recognizes UMI as Publisher of Record for all US dissertations 1998 Library of Congress recognizes UMI as offsite repository of Digital Dissertation LibraryRecognition 1939 Dissertations Microfilm & Print 1987 Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc 1 st abstract / index product on CD-ROM 1997 ProQuest Digital Dissertations Technology Innovation

5 Next Generation Dissertations Preserving & disseminating electronic supplemental files o Enhances the scholarly record o Ensures graduate schools and students future access to this valuable research Automatically included in PQDT Full-Text Multimedia accepted for over 10 years Available in PQDT since December 2007

6 Supplemental Files: The Rules 1.Accept any file that has been approved by the Graduate School of the institution from which the degree was awarded 2.There are formats that UMI will support in PQDT, and there are a subset of those formats that UMI will commit to migrating Less is More

7 Support vs. Migration (Draft) SupportMigrate

8 PQDT: Multimedia Statistics

9 PQDT: Finding supplemental files

10 How are supplemental files used? Real Dissertation 434 MB

11 Goldworm multicolored wool jersey print button front evening dress Goldworm multicolored wool knit, full length dress with horizontal stripes and black abstract figures and rib knit bodice From file Heinemann part 2, 1 – 189, p. 109.

12 How are supplemental files used? Display Images … in PowerPoint?

13 How are supplemental files used? Literary Analysis … in Excel??

14 How are supplemental files used? Scientific Evidence

15 Issues of Concern Copyright Level of student awareness regarding copyright Technology File size, format and …. ?


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