UNL LIBRARIES INTERNET RESOURCES CATALOG RECORD
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TITLE:
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities

AUTHORS:
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center

OTHER TITLES:
Directory of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

SUBJECT CATEGORIES:
Education - Higher Education
Arts & Humanities - General Resources

SUBJECT KEYWORDS:
Dissertations, Academic -- Abstracts-- Data processing
Dissertations, Academic -- Indexes -- Databases
Master's Degrees
Ph.D
World Wide Web (Information retrieval system) - Theses and Dissertations

SITE INCLUDES:
This site serves as a clearing-house for online information related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the humanities. The site's most important feature is a directory of most (maybe not quite all) of the ETDs that are currently in progress in the various disciplines that comprise the academic humanities. Among its other uses, hopefully the material available here will be of aid to graduate students who are faced with securing approval and support for an ETD of their own. Audiences also include faculty who want to make informed decisions about supervising an ETD, as well as librarians, administrators, and academic publishers.

Note that the projects collected here represent a broad range of methodologies and subject matter (at least half are devoted to non-"cyber" topics). There is also much diversity in authors' choices of platform, delivery media, and their adoption of proprietary vs. open data standards. This plurality has occasionally drawn criticism from those who are (wisely) concerned with issues of preservation and access. But this site is not intended to put forth any one particular hardware or software implementation or application as an ETD standard -- rather, it is offered as a reference and resource for those interested in tracking the emergence of a new mode of scholarly writing.