OhioLINK Scheduled Maintenance

Several OhioLINK resources will be unavailable briefly on Monday, February 25, from 4:00 a.m. to about 6:00 a.m.  They include the Electronic Journal Center and the Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center.  Access to databases through the Ashland University Library web pages should be unaffected.

OhioLINK: ETD Update

News from OhioLINK regarding the status of the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation database is detailed below and on the OhioLINK Facebook page.  Updates will be posted as they become available. Thank you for your continued patience regarding the ETD.

ETD Search and Display is back! 

Search and Display: We are pleased to report that the ETD data integrity scan passed all vulnerability checks, and all previously published ETD data is back online along with search and display functionality. We would like to thank James Russell of OhioLINK and the OH-Tech development team as well as the information security staff for working diligently to get this service back as soon as possible. If you notice any unusual service behavior, please report it through the usual channels. 

Submission and Approval: OhioLINK staff, OH-Tech, and selected members of the ETD Task Force continue to work on testing and review of the submission and approval features. We expect to open up the service to general staff user testing sometime early next week. 

OH-Tech is working on the capture and load of submissions into the submission and approval application that were in process at the time of the server incident. We hope to minimize the necessity for re-submission of as much content as possible for the sake of students and ETD administrators. We apologize for the disruption in service, and thank you for your patience. - 1/29/13

OhioLINK ETD Center Downtime

OhioLINK's Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center will be down for maintenance Tuesday evening, June 12th, from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm.

First Ashland University Honors Thesis Joins OhioLINK ETD Center

Sarah Ebinger, class of 2011, has become the first Ashland University Honors student to have her thesis included in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center, home to more than 34,000 theses and dissertations written at Ohio universities and colleges.  A major in Child and Family Studies with a minor in Religion, Sarah wrote her thesis, “International Students’ Perceptions of University Assistance with their Social Adjustment,” under the mentorship of Dr. Cindy Moseman of the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences.  With the posting of Sarah’s thesis, Ashland University joins nine other Ohio colleges and universities that contribute undergraduate honors theses to the OhioLINK ETD Center.

First AU Undergraduate Thesis Enters OhioLINK ETD Center

Michael Byrne, class of 2011, has become the first Ashland University undergraduate to have his thesis included in the OhioLINK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Center, home to more than 25,000 theses and dissertations written at Ohio universities and colleges.  An Ashbrook Scholar majoring in history & political science, Michael wrote "An Exploratory Analysis of Free Will in the Social Sciences" under the direction of Dr. Oscar McKnight.  With the posting of Michael's thesis, Ashland University becomes the tenth Ohio institution to showcase its undergraduate theses in the OhioLINK ETD Center.