ABSTRACT
Virginia, it became evident that several issues or “controversies” had been identified in the discussions surrounding electronic publishing in general and electronic dissertations specifically. Some of the issues included:
The question of long-term preservation and transfer of content to future formats
Concerns about how electronic access might facilitate plagiarism The need for training graduate students to use the technology Implementation strategies needed to launch a project at academic
institutions
One of the most important issues identified pertained to the level of awareness and acceptance of electronically distributed dissertations by the scholarly publishing community and how the members of this community were responding to the question of prior publication in cases where derivative articles or portions of electronic dissertations were being submitted for publication to scholarly journals.
