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08/13/2023

Help save the WVU World Languages program. Students deserve better!

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04/21/2022

Submit your proposal for the USETDA 2022 conference! We have opportunities for poster sessions, brief and extended format presentations as well as workshops and tutorials. We've extended the final CFP deadline through April 29, 2022.

The US Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) will hold their 12th annual conference, “USETDA 2022” from September 21 – 23, 2022 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio and also as a virtual hybrid event. We invite graduate school, library, information technology and indu...

03/11/2022

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One bundle of homemade camouflage netting was packaged with a note reading, "Death to enemies." The libraries are also sending Ukrainian books out of the country to refugees who have fled.

09/29/2021

AI will help Google explore the questions people are asking...

AI will help Google explore the questions people are asking.

09/23/2021

Interesting study on publication equity

The imbalance in online success could be due to biased perceptions and women promoting themselves less

05/27/2021

Interesting corporate acquisition news...

"The addition of ProQuest moves the academic analytical capabilities of Clarivate beyond its traditional realm of journal publication data and citations into a much wider range of information sources. There will be long-term predictive and prescriptive analytics opportunities from the enhanced combination of ProQuest’s data cloud with the billions of harmonized data points in the Clarivate Research Intelligence Cloud."

Clarivate plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire ProQuest from Cambridge Information Group.

05/23/2021

The open access dissertation that crashed the internet

Your cheat sheet into the mind of one of the world’s greatest physicists.

04/05/2021

The US Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) will hold their 11th annual conference, “USETDA 2021” on September 22 – 23 as a virtual event. We invite graduate school, library, information technology and industry professionals to submit proposals for presentations, panel sessi...

03/16/2021

USETDA exists to advance the mission of the US ETD Association by providing a means to support ETD professionals, advance ETD operations, and encourage the formation of state-wide ETD associations

03/15/2021

The USETDA recently launched their “ETD Formatting User’s Group” to give a platform and a source of support and advice to reviewers of theses and dissertations. At each yearly conference, the group will meet to discuss the past year’s challenges, issues and successes in the field, and to sha...