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Title ETDs@VT - >2009 monthly
Archive ETD
Plugin edu.vt.library.monthlytheses by Virginia Tech
Base URL http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
Description This is a growing collection of electronic theses and dissertations, documents that explain the research of Virginia Tech’s graduate students, similar to their paper predecessors. ETDs have been required since January 1, 1997, so most documents prior to then are from scanned volumes. VT’s ETDs are available to the public, though authors have the option of temporarily limiting access to the university community or withholding all access.
Repository Type Not specified

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Alternative ETDs@VT 2009 to date
AccrualPeriodicity yearly
AccrualPolicy Files are added as the Graduate School approves ETDs and as bound volumes are scanned for online access.
AccessRights restricted
Creator Virginia Tech
Format text/css
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HasPart Browse by author: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/browse/by_author/
HasPart Browse by department: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/browse/by_department/
HasPart BTDs: scanned bound theses and dissertations
IsPartOf Digital Library and Archives: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu
Language eng
Publisher VATech
Provenance ETDs have lived on the DLA server at scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/ since the initiative began in 1995.
Rights Resources available through DLA are available for research, teaching, and private study. You may print or download materials to a personal computer without prior permission, but you must provide proper attribution of the source in all copies. These resources are not in the public domain and copyright is largely held by the Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. You may print or download materials to a personal computer without prior permission, but you must provide proper attribution of the source in all copies. http://spec.lib.vt.edu/policies/conditions.html 
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    <string>The expected base URL is http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
The configuration parameter is a 4 digit year and 2 digit month.

The ETD&apos;s@VT collection is separated into three different collections within Conspectus due to the complexity of requiring three different plugins for a complete crawl. The first collection, ETD&apos;s@VT, is divided into AU&apos;s by year, and harvests available, restricted and withheld ETD&apos;s from 1997 to 2008 inclusive. The second collection, monthly ETDS@VT, is divided into AU&apos;s by year and month, and harvests available, restricted and withheld ETD&apos;s from 2009 on. Each individual ETD has a folder in either theses/available or theses/withheld.  Restricted ETD&apos;s are in the available folder but only readable by Virginia Tech IP&apos;s and MA nodes. Only IP&apos;s on the MA list of servers are allowed to get a directory listing of theses/withheld; this is updated by a cron job.

The naming convention for the majority of past ETD&apos;s and future ETD&apos;s follows a variant of the format /etd-mmddyyyy-tttttt based on the timestamp they are added to the collection.

Anything that does not match the above structure is harvested by a separate collection and plugin, called ETD&apos;s@VT - pre 2000 unsorted and edu.vt.library.thesesearly, respectively. This third collection is static as no new ETD&apos;s are being added with the old naming conventions. This third collection also harvests the non-ETD content in the /theses directory as it merely excludes pages that follow the above format.</string>
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