A great resource is a google spreadsheet that was made after a lot of questions 
about practice came up on the ETD-L listserv (which is another great resource 
for ETD policy questions).

See 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtSglIhGWCkpdHJvOUNSZUZyRC04UXRUa0w3UmgtYWc&usp=sharing
It's certainly not every institution out there, but it's a good start.

We do require both theses and dissertations be deposited in IDEALS. We allow 
supplemental files, but do not require them. Interestingly, while we've gotten 
data, we've also gotten a fair number of data+software (or scripts). I will say 
that datasets is where we've run into opposition from faculty who often have 
'ownership' (technically it's the University) over the datasets that their 
graduate students want to share (i.e. the datasets were created in their labs).

I did a poster on supplemental files for ETDs for IDCC last year - see 
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/35314

Sarah


Sarah L. Shreeves
IDEALS Coordinator - http://ideals.illinois.edu/
Scholarly Commons Co-Coordinator - http://library.illinois.edu/sc/
Associate Professor, University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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217-244-3877

From: Jizba, Richard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 4:17 PM
To: Beth Tillinghast; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Masters Theses and Dataset Policy Change

Beth,

At Creighton all theses and dissertations must be deposited in our repository. 
The Graduate School considers the digital copy to be the official record. Note 
however, that our volume is quite small (<30/year) but that will be changing a 
bit as we are adding more graduate programs. The College of Nursing offers 
masters and doctorate degrees in a program that is independent of the Graduate 
School, but they also require digital deposit in the repository as copy of 
record.

Here's the notice from the Graduate School web site:

Effective September 2010, all students must submit an electronic 
thesis/dissertation to the Creighton Digital Repository (CDR) on the University 
Libraries' website.  Prior to the student's oral defense, the student must meet 
briefly with Richard Jizba in the Health Sciences Library to discuss copyright 
issues, the embargo period, publishing options, and the procedures for 
submitting the thesis/dissertation to the CDR.  When the student has 
successfully defended the thesis/dissertation, a reviewer will ensure that the 
thesis/dissertation contains all the necessary materials and is formatted 
properly.

We do use UMI as a secondary service. The UMI deposit is done by someone in the 
grad school after the work is deposited in our repository.

Currently we are not requiring submission of the data sets. I have a feeling 
this would be a bit of an issue in some of the biomedical fields. The graduate 
students do their work as part of larger projects and the faculty are sometimes 
very nervous about some aspects of the research getting published prematurely. 
Theses from those areas may be embargoed for 1-2 years.

Our eTD collection: http://hdl.handle.net/10504/51
The guidelines page from the Graduate School: 
http://succeed.creighton.edu/programs/graduate-and-doctorate-programs/current-graduate-students/thesis-dissertation-guidelines


Richard Jizba
Health Sciences Library
Creighton University
(402) 280-5142
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From: Beth Tillinghast [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 2:23 PM
To: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Dspace-general] Masters Theses and Dataset Policy Change

Aloha,
I am beginning discussions with the Graduate Division at our university in 
regards to several issues, and I would like to ask for information from the 
listserv about these issues.

Currently only our PhD dissertations are required to be published. We would 
like to see this policy expand so that Plan A Masters theses are also required 
to be published, though through our institutional repository.

In addition, we would also like to explore requiring the submission of 
dissertation datasets at the time dissertation manuscripts are deposited with 
the Graduate Division.

While the folks at our Graduate Division are not at all opposed to either of 
these ideas, they wanted some feedback about how many institutions already have 
these policies in place. So I would greatly appreciate hearing from those 
institutions who are doing either of these.

Thanks in advance.

Beth


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Beth Tillinghast
Interim Assistant University Librarian for IT
University of Hawaii at Manoa
UHM Library
2550 McCarthy Mall
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 956-2472
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