Many universities and libraries throughout the world are now making digitized versions of traditional (print) dissertations available online. The Ain Shams University Information Network, ASUNET, is the repository of the scientific theses published by the Egyptian universities since 1992 with more than one hundred fifty thousand, bilingual, Arabic and English documents and more than ten thousan...

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To offer theses electronically to its users is something that has been discussed in Swiss university libraries for some time now. There are two main reasons that it has not yet been realized anywhere in Switzerland: On the one hand, the two large university library networks have had big library system migrations to cope with (first the „Réseau Romand” in the French speaking part moved to VTLS, ...