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Electronic Dissertation: Contribute to Worldwide Research

For more than a decade, electronic dissertations have been a standard phenomenon in professional academic community. It is already a standard requirement at many universities to submit not only a paper, but also an electronic dissertation. So what is so special about electronic dissertations?

Electronic Dissertations: What Are They?

Electronic dissertations are electronic dissertation documents that are stored in specialized databases in a form that makes them suitable both for machine archives and worldwide retrieval. By and large, electronic dissertations are quite similar to their paper predecessors, but their medium of expression makes them a more efficient way of representing scientific research. Electronic dissertations are prepared with the help of any standard word processor.

Electronic Dissertations: What Are Their Benefits?

The benefits of electronic dissertations are multiple. Here are but a few:submitting an electronic dissertation eliminates the necessity of providing multiple print copies to corresponding establishments, thus saving paper and shelf space;

• the research results presented in electronic dissertations are more available to scientists world wide;
• potential employers can possibly access an electronic dissertation to assess the candidate;
• due to technological achievements, the message of the electronic dissertation is easier to deliver than that of a paper one: it has become possible to integrate such features as hypertext links, audio, video, animation, databases, simulations, etc. into the document.

Electronic Dissertations: How to Access Them?

Electronic dissertations can be accessed in the following ways:

• via the World Wide Web through the ETD website;
• in BYU Lee Library Catalogue;
• through search engines;
• in the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD);
• via third-party organizations, such as UMI (Universal Microfilm Inc.).