Preserving Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Findings of the Lifecycle Management for ETDs Project: Paper - iPRES 2012 - Digital Curation Institute, iSchool, Toronto Halbert, Martin Skinner, Katherine Schultz, Matt 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, Conference 2012 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. Digital Curation Institute, iSchool University of Toronto 2012-11-01 Text application/pdf 606825 bytes o:294074 hdl:11353/10.294074 http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:294074 "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) eng CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/at/