JEaton: report on result survey of VT alumni

TMinsker PSU: Is there a URL if cited that required authorization?

AMortara: 75% disappears every 4 years

Must cut/paste into your document to ensure that it is preserved.

JEaton: McGraw Hill permissions: older one's granted, more recent one denied.

?: No email traffic. If there are so many questions, why isn’t there more traffic?

Connor: WVU has listlerv that is very busy.

Laval has listserv for ETDs

GBabin: Stability of URLs? Give last time visited the site.

University website is expected to be more stable or to have redirect function.

JHeddesheimer: Has quality improved due to online access?

PConnor: yes

RLutz: yes

LPainter: At 1992 DC meeting some emphasis on masters' theses.

GBabin: Post comments of reviewers without their names.

JMoxley: Real concern about having comments online with dialogue. Record of comments became more formal and recorded as opposed to in-class, informal comments.

TMinzer: Plagerism policing itself due to easier exposure online.

AMortara: Students works at home on large docs that aren’t easily portable.

LBrown: from 20 to 50Mb per student for disk space on university server.

Bob: Access restrictions vs. open: pros and cons

Survey students who restricted access and ask them if they’ve published from their ETDs.

Has ILL dropped?

154 restricted: 119 masters upgraded to WWW (at Virginia Tech in 1998)

Dissertation.com: Will help you do research?

Multimedia–unlimited options for students to use?

WVU lists standard formats; for other formats, authors must submit means to read the work.

GBabin: provides stylesheet; formats still a question.

?: Training issues

JEaton: Information literacy should be a graduate student requirement early in their careers, not just an exit requirement.

Commercial web tutorials: William & Mary using? Penn St. using.