Several projects are underway currently in the UK to promote the production, management and use of theses in electronic format. Funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is enabling three project teams ...

The Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia and the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia have built and maintained the TDX server, which now hosts more than 740 e-dissertations. These dissertations belong to 10 different ...

Using XML for electronic publishing has a lot of advantages, as the format is vendor independent, readeable on any soft- or hardware platform and most suiteable for long term preservation. Unfortunately XML is always a ...

An increasing number of universities in Sweden make their university research results available in electronic form. Technical solutions for electronic publishing are different, but the aim is the same - to facilitate the ...

The number of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in Africa is increasing albeit slowly. The majority of initiatives in this arena are in South Africa but there are efforts to get institutions in other countries ...

Almost all publications in mathematics and other natural sciences are originally created using LaTeX. This format has many advantages, especially concerning the retrieval of information. Moreover, given a LaTeX-document, ...

Implementation of the West Virginia University Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) program has proven to be one of our most effective marketing tools to promote the graduate research of our students, faculty and ...

Within the natural sciences, in particular in mathematics, most of the ETDs are based on LaTeX-coded sources whereas the presentation format is more or less PDF. However, in the international library systems the LaTeX ...