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 ...

Some context The Web has already changed, and will change much more, the way research is both conducted and communicated: e-research, collaborative research, interdisciplinary research call for barrier-free communication channels. These things simply cannot be carried out efficiently in a world where researchers cannot lay their hands on information they want at the time they want it, and for no ...