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Vireo is a turnkey Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Management System.

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Vireo Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Management System

About Vireo

Vireo is a turnkey Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Management System addressing all steps of the ETD process, from submission to publication to preservation. Vireo provides students the ability to submit their digital theses and dissertations via a simple online interface. Graduate offices can use Vireo to manage the ETD submission and approval process.

The project is organized by the Texas Digital Library in collaboration with Texas A&M University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For more information on Vireo, visit the Github Project page for Vireo OR Github Project wiki for Vireo OR Github page for Vireo

Vireo 3.0 - What's New

Vireo 3.0 is major feature upgrade to Vireo. It builds upon the past success of 2.0 and the Java Play Framework to enable new features. Here are some highlights

New Fields:

  • ORCID
  • ProQuest Embargoes

New Features:

  • Revised Needs Corrections workflow: Vireo 3 includes a more intuitive student workflow for submitting corrected manuscripts, including better validations to minimize student errors.
  • Email: Vireo 3 adds the ability to set up rules for sending automated emails to configurable groups of stakeholders.
  • Reporting and Exports: Vireo 3 allows administrative users to create custom, exportable Excel reports by using saved filters and columns. It also includes the addition of the Action Log to a file export package.
  • Multiple submissions: Vireo 3 overhauls the functionality for allowing multiple submissions by a single student. Specifically, it adds more sophisticated validations to prevent students from creating a new submission for the same degree, while allowing legitimate multiple submissions (for different degrees) by the same student.
  • Embargoes: Vireo 3 adds a separate, optional embargo period for submissions going to ProQuest.
  • Custom Action Checklist: In Vireo 3, administrative users have the ability to filter an ETD list by individual Custom Actions. Additionally, Vireo 3 can be configured to display certain Checklist items in the student view.

New Settings:

  • Email "From" and "ReplyTo" are now in administrative settings instead of application.conf
  • Deposit locations can now be configured to have a timeout (defaulted to 60 seconds, used to be 10 seconds) for the SWORD client when depositing large items into DSpace
  • Email Workflow Rules
  • Administrative Groups
  • Separate "Default" and "ProQuest" embargoes

Other New Features:

  • An ADA-compliant student submission interface
  • Several bug fixes

Building and Deploying Vireo

Refer to the wiki pages for instructions on deploying Vireo from scratch or updating a previous release.

License and Copyright

Copyright (c) 2015, Texas Digital Library All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

  • Neither the name of the Texas Digital Library nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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