Announcement and Second Call for Papers: ETD2003: Next Steps - ElectronicTheses and Dissertations Worldwide

[Susanne Dobratz HUB <susanne.dobratz _at__ rz.hu-berlin.de>]

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11 November 2002

Announcement and Second Call for Papers

ETD2003: Next Steps - Electronic Theses and Dissertations Worldwide

On behalf of Humboldt-University Berlin and NDLTD we would like to 
invite you to the "Sixth International Symposium On Electronic Theses 
and Dissertations" being held at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, 
Germany from 21st May until 24th May 2003.

The symposium is the 6th in a series of annual conferences organised by 
the "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations" (NDLTD - 
http://www.ndtld.org ).

The NDLTD initiative is an open federation of currently 149 member 
universities and supporting organisations, such as research institutions 
or private companies. NDLTD's activities are focused on universities, 
libraries, faculties, and graduate students in order to support 
authoring, indexing, archiving, dissemination, and retrieval of 
electronic theses and dissertations worldwide.

ETD2003 is the first conference that will take place outside the USA.

The event will be supported by the NDLTD steering committee, the UNESCO, 
the Soros-Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German 
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German National Library (Die 
Deutsche Bibliothek) and DINI, the German Initiative for Networked 
Information.

The Scope of ETD2003 will not only be to demonstrate new developments in
the field of electronic theses and dissertations but also to encourage
even more universities around the world to become a part of NDLTD and to
promote free access to scholarly electronic documents in the sense of
the Budapest Open Access Initiative. (http://www.soros.org/openaccess)

The Berlin symposium will focus on establishing new cooperation and 
explore common approaches and challenges to the topic of scholarly 
electronic publishing especially of electronic theses and dissertations. 
It will also aim to raise awareness of the educational and service 
aspects and to describe current activities to progress thinking in this 
area.

Along the conference we plan to organise workshops covering special 
aspects of ETDs. For beginners we will also offer a range of different 
tutorials.

We invite you to submit proposals that address any of the following or 
related issues.
" Training and author education issues
" Issues and challenges for libraries
" Long-term preservation of ETDs
" Intellectual property rights and digital rights management
" Technical standards and implementation strategies
" Multimedia applications: technical management and training
" Towards a global digital ETD library: networking and retrieval
" Examples, goals, possibilities and limitations of international 
cooperation
" Publisher's perspectives

If you are interested in giving a presentation, a tutorial or a talk 
within a workshop, or contribute a poster please submit your paper via 
the electronic submission page of the ETD2003 website at 
http://www.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/ until 15. January 2003. We expect 
abstracts with 100 - 300 words.

For questions, please contact: Dr. Peter Schirmbacher 
(schirmbacher _at__ rz.hu-berlin.de ) or Susanne Dobratz 
(dobratz _at__ rz.hu-berlin.de ).

We hope you will take part at this conference and find new ideas, 
friends, and sources for professional development and that ETD2003 will 
be a forum for all of us to shape and define our agenda for the 21st 
century.

We have a limited budget to that allows us to give participants from 
Eastern European, Asian and African countries support for their travel 
expenses. Interested participants may apply for support by email to Dr. 
Peter Schirmbacher or Susanne Dobratz.

If you have queries please do not hesitate to contact the organisation 
committee at etd2003org _at__ rz.hu-berlin.de or look for more useful 
information in our Conference Web-Sites. http://www.hu-berlin.de/etd2003/ .

Dr. Peter Schirmbacher
Chair ETD2003 Conference Organisation Committee

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Susanne Dobratz   
Electronic Publishing Group
University Library / Computing Centre     email: dobratz _at__ rz.hu-berlin.de 
Humboldt-University at Berlin            phone: 49+30+2093-2475 / 3274 
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