eIFL.net and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD: http://www.ndltd.org/) decided to work together to promote the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations and to make intellectual outputs from developing and transition countries more visible and more easily accessible locally and globally. Collaboration between eIFL.net and NDLTD is envisaged in educating stakeholders at national and international levels to promote expanded sharing of scholarship in the networked digital environment through the scholarly community within their own institutions and countries; incubating demonstrations of new Electronic Theses and Dissertations publishing and sustainability models that benefit scholarship and academe; and the joint support of an open access model for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (policies and practices).