Gail McMillan of Virginia Tech, where she and her colleagues have been pioneers in the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) movement, has just published an article “ETDs in the 21st Century,” as one of the series of E-Content columns, which I edit this year for EDUCAUSE Review. You can find it here: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/7/etds-in-the-21st-century