The TDL software development team began its second consecutive sprint this fall devoted to improvements in the Vireo electronic thesis and dissertation management system.
The TDL software development team began its second consecutive sprint this fall devoted to improvements in the Vireo electronic thesis and dissertation management system.
The Texas ETD Association (TxETDA) annual conference will be held February 10, 2011 at the University of Texas at Arlington.
The TDL software development team held a sprint review on Friday, September 24 to demonstrate work completed during a two-week sprint (i.e, development period) devoted to improvements in Vireo, the TDL’s electronic thesis and dissertation management software.
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On Monday, September 13, the TDL software team began a two-week development sprint devoted to improving the Vireo ETD Submission and Management System.
As of September 1, the TDL’s Vireo ETD Submission and Management System is available as open-source software.
The TDL Vireo Users Group has created a prioritized list of desired features and enhancements to the Vireo ETD management system.
TDL member Texas A&M University Libraries recently completed a project to catalog an accumulated backlog of some 2,300 electronic theses and dissertations and to make them available in Texas A&M’s DSpace repository.
The team that worked on the cataloging project included Holly Mercer (Head of Digital Services and Scholarly Communications),
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The student newspaper of the University of Illinois discusses its institution’s use of the TDL electronic thesis and dissertation management system in today’s issue.
The Chronicle of Higher Education provides an update on the state of institutional repositories in US higher education in the article “Digital Repositories Foment a Quiet Revolution in Scholarship.”
The article chronicles some of the disappointments of IRs, but also highlights some successes —
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