ETD2021 Conference Day 1, Tuesday 16th November, 2021 

Time

Activity

Presenter

10:45am - 11:00am (GMT+4)

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference by UAEU

H.E. Zaki Nusseibeh Chancellor (UAEU)

Session 4 Special Keynote – UAE

11:00am - 12:00pm (GMT+4)

دور مركز جمعة الماجد للثقافة والتراث بدبي في حفظ التراث الإنساني

Preserving Human Heritage: The role of Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage in Dubai – To be held at Expo2020

Digitization and restoration projects of ancient scripts by Juma Al Majid Center – Dubai

Due to Covid restrictions this onsite event is by invitation only

H.E. Juma Al Majid (UAE)

Founder Juma Al Majid Center for Culture and Heritage, Dubai UAE

(Session is in Arabic and will be recorded and uploaded when available)

Session 5 NDTLD Welcome and Opening Virtual

4:30pm– 5:10pm (GMT +4)

Welcome Note and Opening Presentation

Dr. Edward Fox, Founder and Chairman of NDLTD 

Dr. Edward Fox, Founder and Chairman of NDLTD, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

Session 6 Presentations

5:10pm - 5:30pm (GMT+4)

An Evaluative Study of ETDs Contributed by North Indian Universities to Shodhganga

Mahipal Dutt (Khalsa College) - India

Chair: Dr. Edward Fox, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

5:35pm - 5:55pm (GMT+4)

Using Persistent Identifiers to Enhance Thesis and Dissertation Services

Daryl Grenz, Rawan Karsou, Yasmeen Alsaedi, Mohamed Ba-Essa (KAUST- KSA)

Chair: Dr. Edward Fox, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

5:55pm - 6:15pm (GMT+4)

Building ladders to the shoulders of giants: How partnering with ProQuest is enabling Lancaster University to realize its aim to be a globally significant University for research in a post-pandemic world

Annette Lawrence (Lancaster University, UK)

Chair: Dr. Edward Fox, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

6:20pm - 6:40pm (GMT+4)

Copyright Policies and Guidelines for Thesis in Universities

Sangeeta Narang (All India institute of medical sciences)   Charles Greenberg (Roan University, USA)

Chair: Dr. Edward Fox, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

6:40pm - 7.00pm (GMT+4)

Changing the bibliometrics game: Reference mining Social Sciences and Humanities ETDs and detecting errors for the common good

Silvia Eunice Gutierrez,    De la Torre, Rodrigo Cuellar Hidalgo (South America)

Chair: Dr. Edward Fox, NDLTD, Virginia Tech, VA, USA

ETD2021 Conference Day 2,  Wednesday 17th November, 2021

Time

Activity

Presenter

Session 7: Keynote

4:00pm - 5:00pm (GMT+4)

Find an expert: Who is best to represent a university on matters of 'open'?

By Dr Danny Kingsley (Flinders University, Australia)

Chair: Prof. Ramesh Gaur (NDLTD) - India

Session 8 (10 mins Pause)

5:10pm - 5:30pm (GMT+4)

Bibliometric study of Research done in Modern European Languages Available in ETD – Shodhganga

Manmeet Kaur (Jiwaji University, India)

Chair:  Austin McLean; ProQuest, Senior Director Dissertations

5:35pm - 5:55pm (GMT+4)

Harvesting Publication Data to the Institutional Repository from Scopus, Dimensions and Unpaywall

Yrjo Lappalainen, Nikesh Narayanan (ZU, UAE) Chair:  Austin McLean; ProQuest, Senior Director Dissertations

5:55pm - 6:15pm (GMT+4)

Classifying Chemistry literature using Machine Learning (ML) Techniques

Abhay Maurya, Smarajit Paul Choudhary (Mizoram University, India)

Chair:  Austin McLean; ProQuest, Senior Director Dissertations

5 mins Pause

6:20pm - 6:40pm (GMT+4)

Applications of Mining ETDs

Bipasha Banerjee, William Ingram, Jian Wu, Ed Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)

Chair: Prof. Ramesh Gaur (NDLTD) - India

6:40pm - 7:00pm (GMT+4)

Innovations in ETD Programs in Brazil

Ana Pavani (PUC, RIO Brazil)

Chair: Prof. Ramesh Gaur (NDLTD) - India

 7:00pm-7:30pm (GMT+4)

Session 9:  Closing session Announcements about ETD2022

Professor Dragan Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad

Prof Dragan Ivanovic 

(University of Novi Sad, Serbia)

Chair: Prof. Ramesh Gaur (NDLTD) - India