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Requiring Theses in Digital Form: The First Year at Virginia Tech.
Young, Jeffrey R.
Chronicle of Higher Education, v44 n23 pA29-A31 Feb 13 1998
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is aggressively pursuing a plan to change the presentation and dissemination of student research by requiring students to submit theses and dissertations in digital form and creating a database on the World Wide Web that provides free, instantaneous access to graduate students' research. Some feel this approach is not appropriate for student work. (MSE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change Strategies, Computer Uses in Education, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Change, Educational Trends, Electronic Text, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Technology, Masters Theses, Research Projects, Scholarship, Student Research, Trend Analysis, World Wide Web
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