Open access repositories have given universities an exciting new opportunity to manage and publish their own ETDs. At the same time, new challenges have emerged such as objections to open access and new more complicated workflows. Meghan Banach, Metadata Catalog Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has coordinated the library side of ETD management for the past 4 years. She oversees the management of about 500 theses and dissertations per year. She will use the UMass ETD program as a case study to describe two workflows for managing ETDS: one for doctoral dissertations which involves both the UMI Proquest ETD Administrator system and UMass Amherst’s open access repository and another for Masters theses in which thesis submission and publication are managed completely "in-house" through the repository. She will present some of the many benefits of using an open access repository to manage and publish ETDs, such as free online access and increased usage of ETDs, the ability of the institution to showcase its own research, and the advantages of taking ownership of content produced at your own institution. She will also discuss some of the solutions and some of the workarounds for overcoming challenges such as resistance to open access and complications with the submission process for dissertations. This session will cover all aspects of ETD operations and should be of interest to both librarians and graduate school professionals.