Preserving Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Findings of the Lifecycle Management for ETDs Project: Paper - iPRES 2012 - Digital Curation Institute, iSchool, Toronto Text CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/at/ iPRES, iSchool, Toronto, Canada, Archival Information Packages, Data Management, Digital Archives, Digital Curation, Digital Libraries, Electronic Theses and Dissertations, ETDs, Digital Objects, Digital Preservation, Distributed Digital Preservation, Ingest, Interoperability, Micro-Services, Repository Software, Submission Information Packages Conferences -- iPRES Conference (001000) -- Conference 2012 (001007) application/pdf Halbert, Martin Skinner, Katherine Schultz, Matt 2012-11-01 eng "iPres 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects." Editors: Reagan Moore, Kevin Ashley, Seamus Ross, 315-319 (2012-11-01) Digital Curation Institute, iSchool University of Toronto hdl:11353/10.294074 https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:294074 This paper conveys findings from four years of research conducted by the MetaArchive Cooperative, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), and the University of North Texas to investigate and document how academic institutions may best ensure that the electronic theses and dissertations they acquire from students today will be available to future researchers.