Digital library of theses
-1 XLIFFService: Sequence contains no elements The Digital Library of Theses (DLT) is the project custom-made the Russian State library in 2003 by Electronic Archive corporation.
Creation reasons
The Russian state library is storage of originals of the dissertations defended in the country since 1944 on all specialties except medicine and pharmacy. The All-Russian fund of dissertation works was created in 1944 according to the order of All-Union committee on affairs of the Higher school at SNK USSR. Now over 900000 volumes of theses are stored in fund of Department of theses. Annually about 30000 theses (20000 candidate and 10000 doctor's) come to RGB.
In 2003 the management of the Russian state library made the decision on need of ensuring broad availability and safety of fund of theses on the basis of modern information technologies that led to creation of the Digital library of theses of RGB.