In the week since ProQuest made its announcement regarding fee changes for institutions submitting ETDs, there has been much conversation about what this means for institutions who are considering the adoption of ETDs and those who have already been making their ETDs available through their institutional repositories.
If you are following this conversation, then you might be interested in the post from LibraryJournal.com which includes several quotes from ProQuest’s Austin McLean as well as from Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS repository coordinator at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign – who utilizes Texas Digital Library’s Vireo tool.
The article makes explicit mention of the Vireo ETD Submission and Management system as one alternative to ProQuest’s ETD Administrator and as an example of the variety of mechanisms institutions currently have for making their ETDs discoverable and accessible to the world.
The first sentence from the article sums it up, “In a move with potentially broad implications for the world of Electronic Dissertations and Theses (ETD), ProQuest has dropped the fees for those using its ETD Administrator program and interface.”
