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What exactly is an ETD?

An ETD is an Electronic Thesis or Dissertation. Many universities limit their collections to doctoral theses or dissertations (PhD or DPhil) and theses completed in fulfilment of a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree. Individual institutions may choose to include output from other degree courses.

There is some variation between countries in the use of terminology e.g. some universities refer to doctoral theses and some to doctoral dissertations. The term ETD accomodates these differences and is becoming used internationally.

An ETD can take a variety of forms. At the simplest level it may be an electronic version of a printed thesis. This may be an old document that has been scanned and converted into PDF. Alternatively it could be a recently completed piece of work produced and archived in Word or produced in Word and converted into PDF in order to be made available on the Web.

ETDs allow more adventurous students to express their research results in creative and flexible ways that would not be possible if they were limited to paper based output. 'Born digital' theses may include audio and visual material and may not even be in a traditional linear format.