ETD Admin
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38 results found
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Automatic delivery of scheduled ETDs
Allow Administrators to schedule delivery of etds and have them sent to ProQuest automatically on the scheduled date.
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Make tags visible to my whole team.
I use the ‘tag’ feature to identify different graduation terms and those ETDs that should not be published until a later time. These tags make my work and groups of submissions easy to organize, but others in my office cannot see these same tags. You need to make the tags visible to all administrative users at one school so we can work together.
11 votesWe are reviewing updates to our tag feature to allow for global management of tags and sharing of tags across users.
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Add note advising students not to use institutional email address
Students sometimes enter their institutional email, which often expires very soon after graduation. Requiring an address that isn't from the institution (via some kind of validation), or at least reminding them to use one, would be very helpful.
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Support for Undergrad Capstone Submissions
Allow ETD Administrator to handle undergrad capstone submissions. Make changes to remove Masters and Doctoral teams, workflows to reflect undergrad requirements.
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Add authenticated ORCID iD functionality to ETD Administrator
Currently, the form field for ORCID requires manual entry of an ORCID iD. This leaves room for error and typos, and does not allow for transfer of data between ORCID and the ETD system.
ProQuest should build in an option for institutions to either use the Public or Member ORCID API to gather authenticated ORCID iDs along with the ETD submissions, thereby ensuring that the ORCID iDs collected are accurate.
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Configurable 'Register Decision' Options
'Email decision letter to Administrators' to be unchecked by default on the 'Register Decision' page.
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Adding additional Decision Statuses to Register Decision function
It would be verify helpful to have more options that "Minor Revisions Required", "Major Revisions Required", and "Accept" as the Decision options. Having at least one option such as "ProQuest requirement complete; Additional requirements pending" is needed. Students quite often have requirements outside of the ProQuest system that must be completed before we can finalize their dissertation in the ProQuest system but they have already completed the revisions in ProQuest. When students see "Minor Revisions Requested" as the status on their already revised dissertation, it is extremely confusing to them.
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Add note under the Institutional Student ID field
We’ve seen some cases where a student has entered in the wrong text instead of their correct Harvard ID number. Will you please add a note under the Institutional Student ID field that says, “Harvard HUID”.
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Prevent student from submitting ETD if embargo is requested and and embargo document isn't uploaded to the submission
Some schools require students to upload a signed approval form to the Administrative Documents page when requesting a ProQuest or IR embargo. These institutions would like to have a rule making upload of the Administrative Document required iff the student has requested an embargo.
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Allow Custom Specific instructions for IR publishing options page
Allow custom text to be added to the top of the IR publishing options page, as is currently an option for the University IR Agreement page
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Allow deletion of records of certain status
It's not uncommon for students to stop a submission in progress, and then when they return, start a new submission rather than continue the old one. It's also not uncommon, at my institution, for students to submit items that actually are not theses/dissertations (we have a different submission mechanism for those). Being able to completely delete these records (a check-box validation could be included) would be very handy.
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ETD Author Writing Toolkit
Add support for, or integration with, an author tool that would allow me to focus on creating quality content, and worry less about formatting.
- provide base formatting templates, including customer "sanctioned" versions for my university
- support for committed reviews of drafts
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ETD Admin Reports - Schedule reports
As an ETD administrator, I would like to be able to run reports on a regular basis automatically on a schedule that I set in ETD Admin.
Call to Action: ETD ADMINS please comment and add how you would want this scheduled reports feature to work for your needs! :)5 votes -
Add email address field for ETD Advisor
Add a field to the ETD Admin Advisor form to capture the advisor's email address
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"Other" option for IR embargo period
Allow students to select a custom IR embargo length by manually entering the desired embargo period in the ETD Admin submission form
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Add more fields to 'reports' options
It seems reasonable that any field related to the given ETD should be available to reports, but personally, abstracts and admin notes would be the fields I would find most useful.
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Allow Administrators to see uploaded copyright forms on the Summary Page.
It would make it easier for me to make sure that students are submitting their supplemental copyright forms, if I could see it from the summary page instead of hunting through the tabs.
5 votesthink what you are requesting is that that status of copyright permissions forms be presented in the ETD Admin dashboard for your review. This is an interesting idea!
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Allow students to communicate with the ETD Administrator within the ProQuest ETD Administrator
Currently students need to direct questions regarding requested formatting changes outside the ProQuest ETD Administrator via an external email account. This requires the administrator to look in two different places (the PQ Administrator) and their email account to properly respond to formatting questions.
5 votesThank you for the idea. Where in the workflow would you want to discuss with the administrator?
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Include the Publication Number in a submission's XML data
Emily Kilcer ekilcer@albany.edu from the SUNY University at Albany has requested that a submission's Dissertation/thesis number be included in the XML file we deliver to their institutional repository. They need a number/identifier that ties all their systems together. Between the ProQuest database, their Alma catalog and their repository, the first two have the Dissertation/thesis number associated with their content but they don't have it in their institutional repository.
Doug Schnur – Technical Support Analyst
ProQuest | 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway | Ann Arbor, MI USA 48106-1346
E: tsupport@proquest.com O: +1-800-889-3358
Better research. Better learning. Better insights.4 votes -
4 votes
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