Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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358204 | The Journal of Academic Librarianship | 2015 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The dangers that digital files face can seem merely the stuff of theory and risk assessment matrices until an institution experiences its first data loss; especially when those digital files represent the graduate research output of a university, the potential impact of that loss increases exponentially. The authors present a case study of the challenges one academic library has encountered in the stewardship of its electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) over the course of a decade. This article examines the problems that can arise years after the transition from a physical to electronic collection and presents documentation solutions that can make ETD preservation and curation more effective.
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Authors
Joy M. Perrin, Heidi M. Winkler, Le Yang,