Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Policy

In January 2001, the NJIT library initiated its ETD program, wherein the library would no longer provide in-print or photocopied theses and dissertations (TD's) to users, but would, instead, scan in the TD's produced by its students and make these ETD's available on the web.

Effective August 1, 2002, the library will:

• continue to scan newly produced TD's (approximately 70 dissertations and 40 theses a year), place those ETD's on the web, and deposit the unbound paper original in storage
• provide original, bound, paper copies of past-year's TD's on request to on-site users; such items will only be available to read within the library; requests must be made in advance; items will be available next day; same-day requests cannot be honored
• refuse all outside requests to provide copies of dissertations done before 1997; suggest outside users purchase copies from UMI's Dissertation Express database
• instruct users to get free PDF files of NJIT dissertations done between 1997 and 2000 directly from UMI's Current Research @ NJIT database (available on our databases menu)
• charge a fee of $30 to any outside requests for thesis to be scanned or photocopied
• scan TD's upon request for remote, NJIT users (e.g., distance learning students, faculty on sabbatical, etc.) who cannot get to campus

Due to state of NJ and NJIT budget cuts, the Van Houten library is no longer able to continue its ETD project as initially conceived.

If you have any questions please contact ETD Team.

Created 4/12/2001;
Updated Jul 23, 2002
Adopted Jul 19, 2002, Librarian's Team