ETD 2021 is a virtual conference, hosted and organized by the United Arab Emirates University and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). There will be two pre-conference workshops, and the conference will be followed by a series of regional workshops that EIFL will host.

15 November: Pre-conference workshops

• Leveraging the ETD as a pathway to broader discussions about openness in a university; and
• Persistent identifiers for ETDs, institutional use cases. 

More details and registration for the pre-conference workshops. 

16 - 17 November: ETD 2021 conference

• The conference takes place over two days. See the conference schedule, and click here to register. 

18 November: Regional ETD workshops

• EIFL will be hosting a series of regional ETD workshops for informal discussion of challenges and opportunities for advancing and opening up ETDs, and the future of open ETDs that we want to build together as a community: 
  • Asia-Pacific at 6:00 GMT, Click to register.
  • Africa, Middle East and Europe at 12:00 GMT, Click to register.
  • America’s at 4:00pm GMT, Click to register.

More about the regional workshops. 

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, is a member of NDLTD Board of Directors.