“…Starting in 1987 when the concept of ETDs was formed, theoretical literature and technological development began to speed up with the advancement of internet technology and online search engines (Fineman, 2004). Scholars of library and information science have widely and deeply discussed issues regarding ETD collaboration, discovery, metadata, system improvement, and preservation strategies ( Janick and McLaughlin, 2006;Song, 2007;Yiotis, 2008;Lippincott and Lynch, 2010;Early and Taber, 2010;McCutcheon, 2011;Stewart, 2012;Perrin et al, 2015). However, only a little literature has discussed music-related ETDs, mainly because the concept of ETDs, according to Fineman (2004), is generally "limited to providing better access to information, but not additional or better information" (p. 898).…”