Emory University's Electronic Theses and Dissertations program began in 2007 and includes the deposit of all dissertations and theses by graduating Ph.D., Master's and undergraduate Honors students. As a mature program with an older submission system, Emory's ETDs needed a facelift to meet the needs of today's digitally oriented students. Given current staffing levels, a complete redevelopment of the system was not feasible. However, the ETD team identified several areas for cost effective improvements of both the ETD submission system and the support services offered. This poster will help generate "best practice" solutions for institutions supporting ETD programs by highlighting how the Scholarly Communications Office and ETD staff undertook a collaborative effort to revamp the program, including: - usability testing of the submission website leading to easily implemented updates, - revised Scholarly Communications materials covering copyright, - evolving suite of services offered by the Scholarly Communications Office, - a new proactive approach to informational sessions and hands-on submission workshops, - online accessible documentation of ETD policies and procedures, - and development of quantitative and qualitative measurements. Emory's ETD program not only benefitted from the changes listed above, but also from the stronger communication between the Scholarly Communications Office and ETD staff that began with this project. The result is a stronger and more cohesive ETD program that leaves Emory's students with a favorable impression of the University as they graduate.

Slides from a presentation at ALA 2018 on the implementation of Emory's Open Access Collection Development Policy.

Today’s undergraduate students, born between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, are the first members of Generation Z to attend college.1 Born at the same time as the World Wide Web, this generation is the first to be com- prised of true digital natives.2 Not only do Generation Z students possess a digital savvy beyond cut-and-paste and have the skills to be producers and re-users of content, they also come to the classroom with technology ready in hand.3 They have expectations that all information can be found quickly and that support should be available 24/7.4 Given their easy and ubiquitous access to the technological tools and services of the peer-to-peer sharing economy, Generation Z is entrepreneurial in nature “with nearly half want- ing to start their own business.”5 However, these students are not equally savvy with copyright law, either in understanding their rights as creators or the contours of copyright exemptions for users, like fair use.

INTRODUCTION The support and curation of research data underlying theses and dissertations are an opportunity for institutions to enhance their ETD collections. This article describes a pilot data archiving service that leverages Emory University’s existing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) program. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM This pilot service tested the appropriateness of Dataverse, a data repository, as a data archiving and access solution for Emory University using research data identified in Emory University’s ETD repository, developed the legal documents necessary for a full implementation of Dataverse on campus, and expanded outreach efforts to meet the research data needs of graduate students. This article also situates the pilot service within the context of Emory Libraries and explains how it relates to other library efforts currently underway. NEXT STEPS The pilot project team plans to seek permission from alumni whose data were included in the pilot to make them available publicly in Dataverse, and the team will revise the ETD license agreement to allow this type of use. The team will also automate the ingest of supplemental ETD research data into the data repository where possible and create a workshop series for students who are creating research data as part of their theses or dissertations.