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ETD Data Pilot Program

This guide provides submission guidelines and information about the ETD Data Pilot Program.

Program overview

In this pilot program, graduate students submitting Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations  will be provided with the opportunity to archive finalized research data sets associated with their published ETD. These data sets will be openly available and virtually connected to the ETD in Digital Commons, the university’s institutional repository.  A collaboration between the FIU Libraries and the University Graduate School, this pilot program seeks to

  1. Establish data submission guidelines
  2. Develop strategies for educating graduate students on data archiving
  3. Assess data storage capabilities and needs for long term storage and access to data.

program evaluation

At the end of this pilot program we seek to evaluate the following outcomes:

  • Types and Size of Data
  • Assess data storage and access workflows and needs
  • Meeting Graduate student support needs
    • Surveys at the end of workshops and after final submission