NDLTD/MetaArchive Preservation Strategy Gail McMillan, Katherine Skinner 3rd ed. June 2010 Members of the NDLTD and the MetaArchive Cooperative have the opportunity to preserve their institutions’ ETDs in a secure and private distributed preservation network. Because both organizations share the goal of enabling higher education institutions to provide long-term, open access to electronic theses and dissertations, the NDLTD is collaborating with the MetaArchive to co-sponsor a preservation strategy specifically for ETDs. This document outlines that strategy. Current institutions engaged in the NDLTD/MetaArchive Preservation Strategy include Boston College, Emory University, Florida State University, Georgia Tech, Rice University, Virginia Tech. Incoming members include Auburn University, Pontifícia Universidade Católica-Rio de Janeiro, and University of Louisville. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). It supports electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance knowledge sharing worldwide. It provides resources for university administrators, librarians, faculty, students, and the general public. Topics include how to find, create, and preserve ETDs; how to set up an ETD program; legal and technical questions; and the latest news and research in the worldwide ETD community. http://www.ndltd.org The MetaArchive Cooperative provides low-cost, high-impact preservation services to help ensure the long-term accessibility of the digital assets of universities, libraries, museums, and other cultural memory organizations. In addition to preserving members’ digital content in a distributed digital preservation network, the Cooperative also offers consulting and education services to institutions that seek training in digital preservation planning, policy creation, and implementation, including setting up and running Private LOCKSS (http://www.lockss.org ) Networks (PLN). http://www.metaarchive.org