LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.Collection Info:
The ETDs@VT collection is separated into two different collections within Conspectus due to the complexity of requiring two different plugins for a complete crawl. The first collection, ETDs@VT, is divided into AUs by year, and harvests available, restricted and withheld ETDs since 1997. The base URL for both collections is currently http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/. Each individual ETD has a folder in either /theses/available or /theses/withheld. Only IPs on the MetaArchive list of servers are allowed to get a directory listing of /theses/withheld; this is updated by a cron job. Restricted ETDs are those only viewible by the Virginia Tech community and are contained in /theses/available/etd-mmddyyyy-tttttt/restricted. MetaArchive servers are allowed to read these locations as well. The naming convention for the majority of past ETDs and future ETDs follows a variant of the format /etd-mmddyyyy-tttttt ; based on the timestamp they are added to the collection. Unpadded months and days as well as 2- and 4-digit years are all correctly harvested into AUs by year. Anything that does not match the above structure is harvested by a separate collection and plugin, called ETDs@VT - pre 2000 unsorted and edu.vt.library.thesesearly, respectively. This second collection is static as no new ETDs are being added with the old naming conventions. This second collection also harvests the non-ETD content in the /theses/ directory as it merely excludes pages that follow the above format. See the plugin notes for more specific information on the crawl rules.
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LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit.